• ISBN13: 9780679775430
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publisher Imprint: Vintage
• Publication Date: September 1, 1998
• Pages: 624
• Original Price: USD 19.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 476 grams

<p><b>From the Inside Flap</b><br>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. <BR>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. <BR>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.</p>