Like ``A Wild Sheep Chase'' and ``Dance Dance Dance,'' Like so many of Murakami's previous stories, ``Wind-Up Bird'' is part detective story, part Bildungsroman, part fairy tale, part science-fiction-meets-Lewis Carroll. World, Murakami has written a fragmentary and chaotic book. In trying to depict a fragmented, chaotic and ultimately unknowable ``Wind-Up Bird'' has some powerful scenes of antic comedy and some shattering scenes of historical power, but such moments do not add up to a satisfying, fully fashioned novel. But while Murakami seems to have tried to write a book with the esthetic heft and vision of, say, Don DeLillo's ``Underworld'' or Salman Rushdie's ``The Moor's Last Sigh,'' he Haruki Murakami's latest novel, ``The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,'' is a wildly ambitious book that not only recapitulates the themes, motifs and preoccupations of his earlier work, but also aspires to invest that material with weighty mythicĪnd historical significance. 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle': A Nightmarish Trek Through History's Web
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