The wind-up bird chronicle /
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantast...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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New York :
Vintage International,
1998.
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| Edition: | First Vintage International edition. |
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| Summary: | Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 607 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0679775439 9780679775430 0679446699 9780679446699 |