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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

Game of Thrones meets ancient Egypt in this magnificent epic from one of the world’s biggest-selling authors—a novel that conjures the magic, mystery, romance, and bloody intrigue of a fascinating lost world . . .On the gleaming banks of the Nil

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Characters

Haruki Murakami (7)

“Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, breakup, Broken Heart, Love & Relationships

“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shake…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: human beings, human affairs, Human Behavior, human actions, confiding

“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: purpose, Decisions, lost

“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Importance, Worth, Knowing Someone

“Someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: romance, Right Person, Envy, Self-Pity

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, People, Thoughts, Aging

“Then Creta Kano mounted me and used her hand to slip me inside her. Once she had me deep inside, she began a slow rotation of her hips. As she moved, the edges of the pale-blue dress caressed my naked stomach and thighs. With the skirts of the dress spread out around her, Creta Kano, riding atop me,…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Sex, erotica, orgasm