![]() 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. 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 who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. ![]() Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. The first part, The Thieving Magpie, begins with the narrator. ![]() 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. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a novel published in 19941995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. ![]()
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