"Nejimakitori Kuronikuru"@en . "0-679-77543-9" . . "607"^^ . "39915729" . . "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"@en . . "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (\u306D\u3058\u307E\u304D\u9CE5\u30AF\u30ED\u30CB\u30AF\u30EB, Nejimakitori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994\u20131995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the \"only official translations\" (English) are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzabur\u014D \u014Ce."@en . . .