The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -- Haruki Murakami

<b>A dreamlike and compelling" tour de force (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>)--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. <br></b><br> 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 one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Haruki Murakami<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 09/01/1998<br><b>Pages:</b> 624<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.96lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.01h x 5.25w x 1.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679775430<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times</i> 10/11/1998 pg. 32<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 09/12/2003 pg. 158<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 06/27/2008 pg. 98<br><i>Men's Journal</i> 11/01/2011 pg. 22<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 07/05/2013 pg. 99<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. He is the author of the novels <b>Dance, Dance, Dance</b>, <b>Hard-Boiled Wonderla