japanese literature in english

The wind-up bird chronicle

Translated by: Jay Rubin

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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, he finds himself at the bottom of a well. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation.

Japanese title: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru
Subjects: Haruki Murakami, Translations into English
Man-woman relationships, Fiction
Psychological fiction
Psychological fiction, Japanese
Notes: Japanese title: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.
Description: 611, [2] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780679446699
OCLC Number: 36510552
Genre: Fiction
Document Type: Book
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; Vintage, 1998, 2010
Publication Place: New York; New York
Japanese Publication Date: 1995
English Publication Date: 1997

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