The wind-up bird chronicle
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 …
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- Full title :The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
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
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- Publication Date:©1997
- Edition:First Vintage International edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage International
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1997
Notes
Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.
"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso
The Physical Object
- Description:607 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0679775439, 9780679775430, 0679446699, 9780679446699
- oclc:ocm39915729
- LC Classification:PL856.U673
- Dewey Decimal:895.6/35
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