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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Published
Nov 1997
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Magical Realism Magical Realism
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607

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.

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 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.

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Sep 1998 Vintage ISBN 0679775439
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First Edition Nov 1997 Knopf ISBN 0679446699
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