The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia.
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- ISBN: 9780679775430
- ISBN: 0679775439
- Physical Description: 607 pages 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage International edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 1998.
- Copyright: ©1997
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General Note: | "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso. "Originally published in Japan in three separate volumes as Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru."--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Man-woman relationships > Japan > Fiction. Japan > Fiction. Japan > Politics and government > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Political fiction. |
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