What was the wind-up bird?

the friends we made along the way

Attack ship on fire off the hand of Orion.

It was rape

>>9783192

A set of stories across different times that was brought together on the basis of the symbols used in each:

the baseball bat
the wind-up bird

I have no idea what the fuck it means though, just as I don't with his other books that I've read (1q84, for example). But hey, its surrealism, isn't it?

>>9783665
Windup is a baseball term having to do with pitching the ball. Maybe there's some kind of metaphor in there where the bird represents a "pitcher" and the bat represents a "batter". Maybe something about changing one's fate. Or its all just gobbledygook.

>>9783910
Nah, it's windup like a mechanical toy, murakami's always on about winding his spring etc. Spot on about the gobbeldy gook, tho.

does it worth reading lads?

>>9783525
Bravo, Murakami.

>>9783192
The bird that winds the world. Spoiler: It doesn't fucking matter that it's a bird.

>>9784068
Yes. Kafka and Wind-Up Bird are his best novels, in my opinion. I don't think Murakami's writing is particularly impactful, but it's entertaining.

>>9784081
seconding this
Started with Colorless which was alot of nothing with barely any gain( which I get it, I get that the whole book is about holding on and looking for closure and how we usually never get it completely or that its never what we build it up to be. We didnt need that much set up for that explanation.)

But a friend told me to read Kafka and then Windup which are really great