THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

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. Haruki Murakami ; Translated From The Japanese By Jay Rubin. This Translation Originally Published In Hardcover In The United States By Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, In 1997–t.p. Verso. Works Consulted, P. [609].