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Japan’s most highly regarded novelist, Haruki Murakami, vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a heroically imaginative novel that 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 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

• Language: English
• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 624
• ISBN: 9780099448792
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