Murakami, Haruki <br/><br/>
The wind-up bird chronicle / 
Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. 
 - First Vintage International edition 
 - New York :  Vintage International,  1998. 
 - 607 pages:  20 cm 
<br/><br/>"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>in English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-679-77543-9 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Man-woman relationships--Japan--FICTION
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Fiction<br/>Japan--Politics and government--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>M93w 1998