~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction - 1995, and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature - 1999
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat, and soon finds himself looking for his wife as well in a Netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo . . .
A heroically imaginative novel suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II from one of Japan's most highly regarded novelists: Haruki Murakami.
"A labyrinth designed by a master, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is at once familiar and irresistibly strange.” -- San Francisco Chronicle