num_pages: 609
description: Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
language: English
title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
titlecomplete: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
characters: Toru Okada, Malta Kano, Nutmeg Akasaka, Kumiko Okada, Creta Kano, May Kasahara, Noboru Wataya, Boris Gromov, Cinnamon Akasaka, Ushikawa, Tokutaro Mamiya
genres: Asia, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 273392
places: Japan, Tokyo
series: ねじまき鳥クロニクル
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize
category: the Translation of Japanese Literature, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: The Harvill Press