1Q84 was published later, in 2011, but since I read it first, I couldn’t help but compare the two. Murakami readers will notice that TWUBC has a lot of similarities with his novel 1Q84. The English translated version puts all three volumes together into one thick book (though I don’t know if three separate versions were released individually like 1Q84), which was published in 1997. Published in 1994–1995, the original Japanese version of the novel was released in three parts: Book of the Thieving Magpie, Book of the Prophesying Bird, and Book of the Bird-Catcher Man. TWUBC is pretty long, 603 pages, and it took me nearly 2 months to finish it, which was longer than I had expected, but I will get to that later. It seems like forever since I finished that book, but I guess it was the last book I read before this one I’m about to talk about, which is Haruki Murakami ‘s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( TWUBC). I’m going to celebrate my blog’s 7th anniversary by writing my 329th post! Ok, I realize that number is nothing special but what the heck, right?Īnyway, I didn’t realize that the last book I talked about on here was The House of the Spirits.
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