The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)

ISBN: 0679775439

Author: Haruki Murakami

Condition: New

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 Japans forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author.In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the citys 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 Murakamis most acclaimed and beloved novels.

• a visionary novel by one of Japan's greatest living novelists, Haruki Murakami.