International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

The 1999 Shortlist:

Jim Crace
Don DeLillo
Francisco Goldman
Ian McEwan
Andrew Miller
Haruki Murakami
Cynthia Ozick
Bernhard Schlink

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle ISBN: 0679446699 (USA); 186046470X (UK)

Nominated by:
Hartford Public Library, Connecticut.

Web Links
Find out more about Haruki Murakami and his books on these sites:
Amy Tak-yee Lai’s Haruki Murakami site with lots of information and links
Another, very detailed, fan site
An interview with Haruki Murakami in Salon Magazine

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man’s search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. Deceptively simple, wise, poignant, funny, and horrifying, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a mesmerising saga of personal conscience and the power of history.

Haruki Murakami was born in Japan in 1949. He is the recipient of many honours including the prestigious Yomiuri Literary Prize and his work has been translated into fourteen languages.

Other books by Haruki Murakami:
Dance Dance Dance (0140154361) 1994
The Elephant Vanishes (024100165X) 1993
The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (0140154353) 1992
A Wild Sheep Chase (0452265169) 1990

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The 1999 Shortlist: Jim Crace Don DeLillo Francisco Goldman Ian McEwan Andrew Miller Haruki Murakami Cynthia Ozick Bernhard Schlink	The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin ISBN: 0679446699 (USA); 186046470X (UK)	Nominated by: Hartford Public Library, Connecticut.	Web Links Find out more about Haruki Murakami and his books on these sites: Amy Tak-yee Lai’s Haruki Murakami site with lots of information and links Another, very detailed, fan site An interview with Haruki Murakami in Salon Magazine
	The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man’s search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. Deceptively simple, wise, poignant, funny, and horrifying, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a mesmerising saga of personal conscience and the power of history. Haruki Murakami was born in Japan in 1949. He is the recipient of many honours including the prestigious Yomiuri Literary Prize and his work has been translated into fourteen languages.	Other books by Haruki Murakami: Dance Dance Dance (0140154361) 1994 The Elephant Vanishes (024100165X) 1993 The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (0140154353) 1992 A Wild Sheep Chase (0452265169) 1990	Top of Page