The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
| Title | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
|---|---|
| Original title | ねじまき鳥と火曜日の女たち |
| Author | Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin |
| Publication | Vintage |
| Size | 609p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780099448792 |
| Topics |
Japanese fiction--Translated into English Japanese fiction--Philosophical Japanese fiction--War stories |
| Notes | Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. |
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