When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
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(1997)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
1st Vintage International ed.
by 村上春樹
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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.
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literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Missing persons, Politics and government, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, political, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese Psychological fiction, Heisei period, New York Times reviewedPeople
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
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"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
"Works consulted," p. [608]
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