Title: ねじまき鳥クロニクル
First published: October 2005
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.
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  [1]: http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
Subjects: literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Missing persons, Politics and government, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, political, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese Psychological fiction, Heisei period, New York Times reviewed
Places: Japan, Tokyo, Manchuria, Ginza, Shinjuku, Shinjuku Gyoen, Akasaka, Setagaya Ward, Ueno Zoo, Shinagawa
People: Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, May Kasahara, Tokutaro Mamiya, Malta Kano, Creta Kano, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka
Time periods: 20th century