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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious novels, translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin. Toru Okada, an unemployed man living a quiet suburban life in Tokyo, sets out to find his missing cat, and soon afterwards his wife, Kumiko, disappears too.

Strange phone calls, a pair of psychic sisters, a dry well and a veteran’s harrowing memories of wartime Manchuria draw him into a hidden world beneath everyday life. Mysterious, absorbing and deeply strange, it is a landmark of contemporary fiction for readers ready for an immersive journey.

• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Translator: Jay Rubin
• Publisher: Vintage
• Format: Paperback, 609 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780099448792