The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -- Haruki Murakami, Paperback

A dreamlike and compelling" tour de force (Chicago Tribune)--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.

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 one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.25w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780679775430

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/11/1998 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98
Men's Journal 11/01/2011 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 99

About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. He is the author of the novels Dance, Dance, Dance, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and A Wild Sheep Chase, and of The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories. His latest novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun, will be published by Knopf in 1999. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.