We will be discussing The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, by Haruki Murakami. This is one of Murakami’s most beloved novels and was listed by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best Asian novels of all time.
“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 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
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