TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
AU  - Rubin,Jay
TI  - The wind-up bird chronicle
SN  - 0679775439 (pbk.) :
AV  - PL 856 .U673 N4513 1998
PY  - 1998///, c1997
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - "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])
N2  - 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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