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.