The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 978-0099448792
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1999)

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then, there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading and listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. Murakami explores the many facets that made up Japanese society at the end of the 20th century, from popular culture, music and film, as well as highlighting the long term effects of the Japanese army’s actions in China.

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