The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami is a story about.......a man who loses his cat.
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*scrunches face thinking how to continue*
....of cos it's not just about that. The unemployed Toru Okada, after losing his cat, starts to encounter all sorts of strange events and characters. His wife leaves him without warning. He meets a pair of spiritual medium sisters, who were originally asked to help find his cat but seem to have a mysterious reason for coming into his life. His neighbour, a girl in her late teens, will engage him on thoughts about death and life. He learns about the Japanese side of WWII in Manchuko, about how this soldier was trapped in a dried-up well for days...Okada then decides to climb into an abandoned well, to experience the same darkness and mull over why his wife left.
I think explaining The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is very much like explaining a particularly vivid dream you had. To you, you're enthralled at how real the dream was and the things that 'happened'. But to the listener, it sounds rather nonsensical.
The magic of the book is that the premise is pretty strange yet not unbelievable. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Because you get drawn into the souls of the characters, their struggle for identity, for meaning to life.
If someone were to ask me what The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was about, I'd scrunch up my face again and crack my head on how to begin...but one thing's for sure, I really enjoyed the whole reading experience.
It was just like a very nice dream.
9 out of 10 ninja dream inducing smoke balls.
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...
*scrunches face thinking how to continue*
....of cos it's not just about that. The unemployed Toru Okada, after losing his cat, starts to encounter all sorts of strange events and characters. His wife leaves him without warning. He meets a pair of spiritual medium sisters, who were originally asked to help find his cat but seem to have a mysterious reason for coming into his life. His neighbour, a girl in her late teens, will engage him on thoughts about death and life. He learns about the Japanese side of WWII in Manchuko, about how this soldier was trapped in a dried-up well for days...Okada then decides to climb into an abandoned well, to experience the same darkness and mull over why his wife left.
I think explaining The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is very much like explaining a particularly vivid dream you had. To you, you're enthralled at how real the dream was and the things that 'happened'. But to the listener, it sounds rather nonsensical.
The magic of the book is that the premise is pretty strange yet not unbelievable. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Because you get drawn into the souls of the characters, their struggle for identity, for meaning to life.
If someone were to ask me what The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was about, I'd scrunch up my face again and crack my head on how to begin...but one thing's for sure, I really enjoyed the whole reading experience.
It was just like a very nice dream.
9 out of 10 ninja dream inducing smoke balls.
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