The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307762702 |
ISBN-13 | : 030776270X |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.