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Sep 08, 2016
Haruki Murakami is one of, if not the most highly regarded novelist in Japan for a reason: his grasp on magical reality is unparalleled. The story of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle follows a man named Toru Okada who searches for his wife’s missing cat, and along the way meets some interesting characters. The plot of the story really isn’t much to focus on when reading this book (or rather, the three books in this volume) – the feeling, and meaning behind the words Murakami writes are breathtaking to say the least. It is a novel about a man, a cat, his wife, the buried secrets of WWII in Manchuria, and what it means to love, die, hate, and find reason to be alive. - @FalcoLombardi of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library