The wind-up bird chronicle

Murakami, Haruki 1949- (author.). 村上, 春樹 1949 Rubin, Jay, 1941- (translator.).

Summary: Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia.

Item details

ISBN: 0679775439
ISBN: 9780679775430
Physical Description: print
607 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Vintage International edition.
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1998.
Copyright: ©1997

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.

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