The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

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.

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; First Vintage International edition (September 1, 1998)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 607 pages
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1.3 x 8 inches