The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679775439
- ISBN: 9780679775430
- Physical Description: 607 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Vintage International edition
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1998.
- Copyright: ©1997
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- "Works consulted," page 609.
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- Subject:
- Man-woman relationships > Japan > Fiction.
Japan > Fiction.
Japan > Politics and government > Fiction. - Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | F MURAKAMI (Text) | 33114016375719 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Murakami (Text) | 540191010003684 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | F MUR (Text) | 0020512072164 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/04/2026 |
| Enka-Candler Library | F MUR (Text) | 0020512794262 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | MUR (Text) | 33258008825171 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | FIC Murakami Haruki (Text) | 30519020184050 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | FIC Murakami Haruki (Text) | 30519020184068 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| King Public Library | F MURAKAMI (Text) | 30094100377784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Manteo Library | F MUR (Text) | 39488300647429 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Asheville Library | F MUR (Text) | 0020513942605 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
