Murakami, Haruki,  1949- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>"Works consulted," p. [609]. Includes a list of author's works ([p. 612-613]). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679775439 (pbk.) :  $14.00 ($19.50 Can.) 9780679775430 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97002813 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Man-woman relationships--Japan--Fiction.<br/>Psychological fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Fiction.<br/>Japan--Politics and government--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL 856 .U673  / N4513 1998