The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle-book cover

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Author(s): Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780679775430
Publisher: Vintage Books (US)
Published: September 1998
Number of Pages: 607