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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex; a man describes wartime torture; Okada finds himself in a netherworld at the bottom of a well. Along the way he examines his disintegrating marriage-- and the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. -- adapted from back cover, Vintage softcover reprint

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

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1997
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Language
English
Publisher
Knopf
Released
1997
Format
Hardcover
Pages
611
ISBN10
0679446699
ISBN13
9780679446699
First published
1995
Original title
ねじまき鳥クロニクル (Nedžimaki-dori kuronikuru)
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While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex; a man describes wartime torture; Okada finds himself in a netherworld at the bottom of a well. Along the way he examines his disintegrating marriage-- and the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. -- adapted from back cover, Vintage softcover reprint