The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 1998, c1997.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 607 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679775439 (pbk.) :
  • 9780679775430 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PL 856 .U673 N4513 1998
Summary: 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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"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.

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