The Last Cry of the Wind-Up Bird: Yael Farache’s Manyfold Guide to Murakami’s Masterpiece –
(ebook, 07/07/2025)
In this groundbreaking analysis of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Yael Farache uncovers the hidden architecture that critics have overlooked for three decades.

Why does this novel haunt readers years after finishing it? What lies beneath its dreamlike symbols and unresolved mysteries? Farache demonstrates, with clarity and precision, that Murakami's masterpiece is secretly structured on a sixteenth-century board game: The Game of the Goose.

This is more than a guide to Murakami’s novel. It’s an inquiry into literature itself, into symbolic language, mythic time, and the shape consciousness.
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