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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami

Published: 1998-09-01
Paperback : 607 pages
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

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 ...
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

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 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.

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by Lisa B. (see profile) 04/09/24

 
  "Literary LSD"by javier f. (see profile) 01/12/19

Who cares where Murakami is taking us, enjoy the wild and crazy trip! This book should be prescribed at rehab centers as a substitute to those with a psychedelic drug addiction. Not since I discovered... (read more)

 
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  "Bottom of the well"by Tricia S. (see profile) 01/29/14

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