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The wind-up bird chronicle
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The wind-up bird chronicle

Author: Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1998, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage International edView all editions and formats
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin
ISBN: 0679775439 : 9780679775430
OCLC Number: 39915729
Notes: "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
Description: 607 p. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.
Responsibility: Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.

Abstract:

Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia.

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