Haruki, Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

J T h e W i n d - U p bird C h r o n i c l e H A R U K I M U R A K A M I Translated from the Japanese by J A Y R U B I N H A R U K I M U R A K A M I Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburd Oe, and Kdbo Abe. He is the author of the novels Dance Dance Dance, hard - boiled wonderland and the End of the World, and A Wild Sheep Chase, and of The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories. His latest novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun, will be published by Knopf in 1999. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. B o o k O n e: T h e T h i e v i n g Magpie June a n d J u l y 1 9 8 4 1 Tuesday s Wind-Up bird * Six Fingers and Four Breasts When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potrul of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini s The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Dance, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and A Wild Sheep Chase, and of The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories. His latest novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun, will be published by Knopf in 1999. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

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