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The wind-up bird chronicle
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This heroically imaginative novel is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. 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 there(...)
September 1998, New York
The wind-up bird chronicle
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Summary:
This heroically imaginative novel is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. 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 there searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanentaly changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Machuria.
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September 1998, New York