The novel 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' (1994-1995) by Haruki Murakami, one of the world's most popular writers, is a work truly of Joycean scale. The horror of World War II and the fate of our contemporary in Japan, letters, mystical dreams, memories, journal articles, encoded files - a complete canvas woven from incredible events, subtle irony, and the inimitable intonation of Haruki Murakami, who said about his work: 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an attempt at an absolute novel... it is a book of healing'.
