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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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“The Orient,” Edward Said writes at the beginning of his oft-cited study Orientalism, “was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.” Here is a formula, and a very familiar one. Yet one could easily apply these same descriptors in summing up the …

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