“Murakami’s writing style, and that of his translator Jay Rubin is known as ‘simple’. It’s important to look beyond the strangeness and observe the commentary on social history that lies beneath. But the settings and characters and mundane day-to-day actives (boiling eggs, taking the train) are so normal they make the phenomena acceptable. “Murakami’s style fits into the magical realism genre so yes weird and wonderful things do happen. “Hmmm this is not an easy book to review. On a basic level he is there for the calm in which to consider his life, but at a metaphysical level he travels through the walls of the well and into other worlds that contain doppelgängers for the main characters and help him connect with his missing wife. These searches introduce a raft of characters and lends him much time, voluntary time, down a domestic well. He begins a search for the cat and then for his wife, who is now also awol. “ A Wind Up Bird is about a man called Toru Okada whose cat goes missing. The book is 600 pages and there are so many characters and stories that there is much to analyse. One with much complexity that not only wows me as I read, but wows me further as I discover more stylistic techniques and deeper meanings to the text afterward. This seemingly simple story of a Japanese man whose cat runs away is anything but.
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