The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Random House, Oct 10, 2011 - Fiction - 624 pages

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.

His wife is growing more distant every day.

Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.

As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

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Or, how I went through an awful lot just to get a cat back...Kafka finds himself in Tokyo, voluntarily spends a long time thinking down in a well, encounters a lot of weird women...Murakami is a great ...

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Toru Okada and his wife Kumiko lose their cat which is named after Kumiko’s brother Norobu Wataya, a rising economist, political pundit, and, latterly, a politician. Later Toru loses Kumiko as well ...

About the author

Haruki Murakami is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library and Wind/Pinball. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages, and the most recent of his many international honours are the Jerusalem Prize and Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Translated by: Jay Rubin
• Publisher: Random House, 2011
• ISBN: 1446499103, 9781446499108
• Length: 624 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General