The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (bestseller) | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force?and one of Haruki Murakami?s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife?s missing cat?and then for his wife as well?in a netherworld beneath the city?s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan?s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.