Review, buy Fiction: Uniform Justice, Man from St Petersburg, The Maltese Falcon, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (The Complete Classics), Evil Under the Sun: Complete & Unabridged, Journey's End, Blindsighted, The Pilgrim's Progress (Great Epics), Only Dad, Heirs of Ravenscar, The House at Riverton, The House on the Strand, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Vanity Fair, At Bertram's Hotel, Sparkling Cyanide, Truecrime, Blind Faith, The Compact Coo: The Itchy Coo Audio Collection (Itchy Coo S.)

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Review Random House Audiobooks / Uniform Justice

Uniform Justice (Random House Audiobooks)

Authors

Donna Leon

Creator: Andrew Sachs
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: ~~£13.70~~
Price: £6.75

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Review Macmillan Digital Audio / Man from St Petersburg

Man from St Petersburg (Macmillan Digital Audio)

Authors

Ken Follett

Creator: Martin Shaw
Publication date: 2008-04-04
RRP: ~~£12.72~~
Price: £10.20

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The Maltese Falcon (ISIS Audio Books)

Authors

Dashiell Hammett

Creator: William Dufris
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: ~~£35.50~~
Price: £72.95

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Review Naxos AudioBooks / The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (The Complete Classics)

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (The Complete Classics) (Naxos AudioBooks)

Authors

Haruki Murakami

Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: ~~£65.00~~
Price: £32.99

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician. Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century. If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. [+]

If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. -Simon Leake, Amazon. com.

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