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Author Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author

Title The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin
Published London : Vintage, 2003
©2003

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 W'PONDS  893.05 M9723 A6/W 2003  AVAILABLE
 MELB  893.05 M9723 A6/W 2003  AVAILABLE
Description 607 pages ; 20cm
regular print
Summary Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell
Analysis Fantasy fiction
Notes This translation originally published: U.S.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; London: Harvill, 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 609)
Notes Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru
Subject Fantasy fiction -- Japan.
Fantasy fiction, Japanese.
Japanese fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Japan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069539
Japan -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105984
Japan -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069539 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Japan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089021
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator
LC no. 00002450
ISBN 0099448793 (paperback)
Other Titles Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English