Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which 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 yo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel: novel
β Scribed by Murakami, Haruki
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage eBooks
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 468 KB
- Edition
- E-Book
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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, he finds himself at the bottom of a well. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation.
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