Brannon’s Reviews > The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle > Status Update

Strange and random, Mr. Wind Up Bird, strange and random. I thought this book was strongest in the historical fiction parts set in the Japanese occupation of China and the coming of the Russians. The rest of it not so much. The magical realism felt forced and the details omitted. It's more like magical fetish than realism. It probably reads better when sitting in a dark well clutching a baseball bat.