The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a novel written by Haruki Murakami. Released from 1994-1995 in three volumes, it tells of a man discovering a mysterious world within Tokyo.
Characters[]
- Toru Okada
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Publisher's summary[]
Japan's most 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 Pynchon.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | 1987 | A novel by the same author with similar themes |
| Inherent Vice | Thomas Pynchon | 2009 | A novel with similar themes |
| In the Miso Soup | Ryu Murakami | 1997 | Another major work of Japanese postmodernism |
| Kitchen | Banana Yashimoto | 1988 | Another major work of Japanese postmodernism |
| Playing for Thrills | Wang Shuo | 1989 | A Chinese novel with similar themes |