The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
First US edition cover
AuthorHaruki Murakami
Original titleねじまき鳥クロニクル
Nejimakidori Kuronikuru
TranslatorJay Rubin
LanguageJapanese
Published
Publication placeJapan
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages607
ISBN0-679-77543-9
OCLC39915729

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) 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.