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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679446699
ISBN-139780679446699
eBay Product ID (ePID)1145259
Product Key Features
Original LanguageJapanese
Book TitleWind-Up Bird Chronicle
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicPsychological, General, Literary, Political
GenreFiction
AuthorHaruki Murakami
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight36 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-002813
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal895.6/3/5
SynopsisJapan'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 Chronicleis a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. From the Trade Paperback edition.