The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force--and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.

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 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1998
ISBN: 9780679775430
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/11/1998 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98
Men's Journal 11/01/2011 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 99