The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
4.2
(55 ratings)611 pages1997Alfred A. KnopfISBN 9780965341981
Literature & FictionContemporary
About this book
While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex; a man describes wartime torture; Okada finds himself in a netherworld at the bottom of a well. Along the way he examines his disintegrating marriage-- and the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. -- adapted from back cover, Vintage softcover reprint
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 611
- ISBN
- 9780965341981
- Language
- en
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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