书名：The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle奇鸟形状录
作者：Haruki Murakami
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：1999
语种：英语
ISBN：9780099448792
商品尺寸：19.6 x 12.7 x 4.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：624（以实物为准）

冈田亨的猫不见了，这让他的妻子感到不安，她自己也变得越来越疏远。然后，他开始接到越来越直白的电话。这个引人注目的故事展开,冈田克也的整洁郊区现实的模糊和无辜的生命,花在烹饪,阅读,听爵士乐和歌剧和喝啤酒在厨房的餐桌旁,翻了个底朝天,他开始一段奇异的旅程,引导(然而晦涩地)一个接一个的字符,每个都有一个故事要讲。

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

1978年，29岁的村上春树(Haruki Murakami)在东京市中心经营一家爵士酒吧。四月的一天，他在看棒球比赛时，突然产生了写小说的冲动。他的di一部小说《听风吟》获得了一个新作家奖，并于次年出版。之后还有更多作品，包括《追羊记》、《残酷仙境》和《世界末日》，但只有1987年出版的《挪威的森林》，才让村上春树从一个作家变成了一个奇才。他的书成为畅销书，被翻译成多种语言，包括英语，村上独特而令人上瘾的虚构世界的大门也敞开了。

村上以令人钦佩的自律写作，每天写10页，之后他跑10公里(他从1982年开始长跑，参加了许多马拉松和赛跑)，从事翻译工作，然后阅读、听唱片和烹饪。他的激情为他的非小说作品增添了色彩，从我所说的奔跑到jue对的音乐，它们也渗透到他的小说和短篇故事中，在他无拘无束的想象探索中提供日常的时刻。在《奇鸟行状记》、《1Q84》和《没有女人的男人》等作品中，村上春树独特地将神秘与日常生活、忧郁与幽默融为一体，令读者为之着迷，也确保了村上春树作为世界上zui受欢迎和喜爱的作家之一的地位。

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.