Haruki Murakami,Jay Rubin
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 young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.,Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, ,The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.,Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.
Fiction,Magical Realism,Cultural,Japan,Asian Literature,Japanese Literature,Fantasy,Contemporary,Literature,Novels,Mystery,Cultural,Asia
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle