The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Edition: Limited edition (1)
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9781846553875
Copyright date: 1998
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.
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