The wind-up bird chronicle /
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International, 1998, c1997. - 607 p. ; 21 cm.
"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
"Works consulted," p. [609]. Includes a list of author's works ([p. 612-613]).
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.
0679775439 (pbk.) : $14.00 ($19.50 Can.) 9780679775430 (pbk.)
97002813
Man-woman relationships--Japan--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Japan--Fiction.
Japan--Politics and government--Fiction.
PL 856 .U673 / N4513 1998
The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International, 1998, c1997. - 607 p. ; 21 cm.
"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
"Works consulted," p. [609]. Includes a list of author's works ([p. 612-613]).
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.
0679775439 (pbk.) : $14.00 ($19.50 Can.) 9780679775430 (pbk.)
97002813
Man-woman relationships--Japan--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Japan--Fiction.
Japan--Politics and government--Fiction.
PL 856 .U673 / N4513 1998