"Magnificent. . . .(Murakami) has taken a pre-millennial swing for the fences a la David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo" ("Newsweek"). "A surreal, sprawling drama . . . that marks . . . Murakami's most ambitious work to date".--"Publishers Weekly".

Dreamlike and compelling. . . . Murakami is a genius. - Chicago Tribune
Mesmerizing. . . . Murakami's most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice. - The Washington Post Book World
A significant advance in Murakami's art . . . a bold and generous book. - The New York Times Book Review
A stunning work of art . . .that bears no comparisons. - New York Observer
With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars. - Philadelphia Inquirer
Seductive. . . . A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange. - San Francisco Chronicle
An epic . . . as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi. - New York Magazine
Mesmerizing, original . . . fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding. - Baltimore Sun
A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing. - Los Angeles Times Book Review
Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's past . . . brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular. -Pico Iyer, Time