Wind-Up Bird Chronicle David Blight has drawn on

David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted

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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle David Blight has drawn on"The Wind Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. All of Murakami's storytelling genius combining elements of detective fiction, deadpan humor, and metaphysical truth, and