NMLP P-036758 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1997
The English text is shorter than the Japanese: at Knopf's request Rubin cut about 25,000 words — three complete chapters (Book Two chapters 15 and 18, and Book Three chapter 26) plus part of Book Two chapter 17, roughly 61 of the original ~1,379 pages — with Murakami's approval
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036758 for "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036758, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).