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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.

A beautiful hardcover in new condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked, presenting as fresh and unread. The boards are unmarked.

This beautiful first printing softcover edition is in fine condition. The pages are tight and unmarked, and the book remains square, clean, and well preserved. A presentation inscription appears on the title page in gold ink. The book is not signed by the author.

This beautiful softcover edition is in near fine condition, with no marks or tears, and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, unmarked, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked.

This beautiful softcover edition is in fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, appear unread, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked.

This softcover edition is in fine condition—tight, square, unmarked, with no tears or marks and only minimal shelf wear. The pages appear unread. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (2017) is a surreal, multi-layered novel about a portrait painter who retreats to a mountain home and discovers a hidden painting that triggers a series of mysterious, otherworldly events. The story blends themes of loneliness, self-discovery, and the supernatural in Murakami’s signature style.