The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

A dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping prophetic and suffused with comedy and menace this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.