A review by anicea
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
4.0
I've been thinking of this book a lot in the last week-and-half since I finished it, and am amazed to find that as beautiful as it reads (which is very beautiful), it is still a grower. This is my first Murakami, and I love the way he finds beauty in the mundane, in the simple things. There are moments, just paragraphs, that made my heart fall through my chest when I read them, and it would be silly to try to describe the passages themselves, but as time wears on that feeling just grows, like my love for this book does...
The friend who lent me this book told me that 'not much happens', but I think that he was wrong - there is a persistent longing in Okada's quest for Kumiko that drives this book forward, but also a slow simplicity that allows every sentence to be relished. Easy five stars.
The friend who lent me this book told me that 'not much happens', but I think that he was wrong - there is a persistent longing in Okada's quest for Kumiko that drives this book forward, but also a slow simplicity that allows every sentence to be relished. Easy five stars.