First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturall
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β Scribed by Peter Christen Asbjornsen,Jorgen Moe
- Publisher
- Random House Inc.
- Year
- 2012;1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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