The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- 640
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
- Yomiuri Prize
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About the book
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" (English), are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 57 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 57 | 100% |
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It has 640 pages — longer than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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