The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage International)

A Vintage International first edition, first printing trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of soiling or creasing. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, annotations, or turned corners. Binding is firm and tight with no cracking. A clean, very good copy throughout. Published as the First Vintage International Edition in October 1998, this trade paperback presents Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in the award-winning English translation by Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Harvard University, PhD from the University of Chicago, and Murakami's primary English-language translator. Rubin's translation of this novel won the 2003 Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature — one of the most prestigious prizes in Japanese literary translation — and Rubin is also a recipient of the 1999 Japanese Literary Translation Prize. The translation was made and adapted from the Japanese with the direct participation of the author, an unusual collaboration that is noted on the copyright page. Widely regarded as one of Murakami's masterworks and a landmark of contemporary world literature. Ships within Canada.