Vintage International Wind Up Bird Chronicle

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.

The saga of a mysteriously disintegrating marriage, suppressed memories of the tragedies of war, and a young man's search for his personal and national identity is set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Japan. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour.