{"product_id":"the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-paperback","title":"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"dreamlike and compelling\" tour de force (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)--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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan'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. \u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eGripping, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaruki 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 \u003cb\u003eDance, Dance, Dance\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/b\u003e, and of \u003cb\u003eThe Elephant Vanishes\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of stories. His latest novel, \u003cb\u003eSouth of the Border, West of the Sun\u003c\/b\u003e, will be published by Knopf in 1999. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 624\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.01 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761561764128,"sku":"9780679775430","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/442f429fa1f26b414a3439e5ac986f45.webp?v=1780210538","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}