The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Hardcover

Murakami, Haruki; Rubin, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679446699 ISBN 13: 9780679446699

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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Book by Murakami Haruki

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The saga of a mysteriously disintegrating marriage, suppressed memories of the tragedies of war, and a young man's search for his personal and national identity is set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Japan. 25,000 first printing.

Nota de la solapa:

highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.  Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo.  As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynch

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679446699
• ISBN 13: 9780679446699
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 611