The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

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. Now with a new introduction by the author. 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.

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• a visionary novel by one of Japan’s greatest living novelists, Haruki Murakami.