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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
notes: Japanese title: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.
subjects: Man-woman relationships
Psychological fiction
Psychological fiction, Japanese
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780679446699
OCLC number: 36510552
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; Vintage, 1998, 2010
publication place: New York; New York
japanese publication date: 1995
english publication date: 1997
document type: Book
description: 611, [2] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.