iratyde_author 's review for:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

4.0

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Murakami’s unique artistry shines through every interweaving and entwining of stories in this grandiose work, however, I battled with some of the many clichés especially male writers attribute to women - period pain related grumpiness and willing prostitution being just two to name. The graphic violence in some of the scenes, in contrast, did not disturb me as much as it perhaps should have. The reason for this may lie in the verbose descriptions and the strangely dispassionate voice of the narrators, but nonetheless, sensitive readers should proceed with caution.