The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin ; [introduction: The greatest turning point (2023)]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator.

Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator.

Standardized Title:

Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Men--Japan--Fiction.

Men.

Man-woman relationships--Japan--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Japan--Politics and government--Fiction.

Japan.

Japan--Fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Political fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xii, 607 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, [2023]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction : The greatest turning point (2023) / [Haruki Murakami] ; translated by Philip Gabriel

The wind-up bird chronicle.

Notes:

Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.

Translation of: ねじまき鳥クロニクル.

"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780679775430

0679775439

OCLC:

1418869982