The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Contributors: Rubin, Jay, 1941-
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 2002?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: jpn
Translation of: ねじまき鳥クロニクル
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780679775430
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction; Japan -- Fiction; Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.
Description: Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
--back cover
Notes: "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.

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