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''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (Japanese: ねじまき鳥クロニクル, ''Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru'') is a novel by [[Haruki Murakami]]. One of his most critically acclaimed and popular works, it opens with the life of Toru Okada, currently unemployed, and his marriage to his wife, Kumiko. One day their cat goes missing. [[It Gets Worse]]. It was first published in three parts during 1994-1995. ▼
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▲'''''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''''' (Japanese: ねじまき鳥クロニクル, ''Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru'') is a novel by [[Haruki Murakami]]. One of his most critically acclaimed and popular works, it opens with the life of Toru Okada, currently unemployed, and his marriage to his wife, Kumiko. One day their cat goes missing. [[It Gets Worse]]. It was first published in three parts during 1994-1995.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Noboru Wataya is more of a [[Villain
▲* [[Affably Evil]]: Noboru Wataya is more of a [[Villain With Good Publicity]], but you have to admit, he has an excellent TV personality. Also Boris the Manskinner in Lieutenant Mamiya's story.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Apparently, the author has quite a thing for wells.
* [[Author Tract]]: A good portion of the work concerns the Japanese occupation of Manchuria (Manchukuo) during the 1930's and [[World War II]]. Murakami makes no bones about calling the whole affair out as having been a Very Bad Idea.
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* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: See [[Flaying Alive]], below.
* [[Determinator]]: Toru Okada becomes a surprising example of one of these as the book goes on, not giving up his search despite the increasingly bizarre, disturbing, and frightening things going on around him.
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* [[Dream Sequence]]
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: Toru's well.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Introducing Creta Kano: [[Mental Affair|prostitute of the mind!]]
* [[Flaying Alive]]: Lieutenant Mamiya witnessed this happen during his service in Manchuria during [[World War 2]]; his recollection of the event to Toru is pure [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
* [[Full
* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Averted. After {{spoiler|Kumiko}} finds out she's pregnant, she gets an abortion despite her husband supporting the idea of raising a child.
** Then again, it's debatable how much of a "good girl" she is.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Sadly subverted.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Toru gets an inky blue mark on his face during one of his trips to the hotel.
* [[Harassing Phone Call]]: The novel begins with the narrator keeps getting phone calls from some an unidentified woman trying to initiate phone sex, which starts the chain of strange events that follow him after.
* [[Haunted House]]: The infamous hanging house, though it falls more under [[Indian Burial Ground]].
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Boris The Manskinner".
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Toru and May.
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: The book is practically ''built'' on symbolic dreams.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: The passwords for Cinnamon's computer are "Zoo" and "Sub", relating to the stories his mother told him.
** Later on, invoked by Ushikawa.
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* [[Strange Girl]]: May Kasahara.
* [[Talkative Loon]]: Quite a few of the characters.
* [[Villain
* [[The Voiceless]]: Cinnamon lost his ability to speak after a traumatic dream in his childhood. He can still communicate effectively via an idiosyncratic form of sign language.
* [[Thrown Down a Well]]: Toru spends a rather large amount of time in the well in the 'hanging house'.
** Also Lieutenant Mamiya which is where Toru gets the idea.
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: The narrator named his cat Noburu Wataya after his hated brother-in-law. The cat gets a better name later on, after Toru decides that it was unfair to the animal.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The whole book is LOADED with symbolism, especially in the narrator's dreams.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]?: Kumiko's parents were never satisfied with her, and constantly compared her to her sister, even forcing her to play the piano like her sister used to before she died. {{spoiler|This is the direct cause for her crippling inferiority complex, which is later manipulated by Noburu.}}
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