01596nam a2200277Ia 450000500170000000800410001724500950005824000290015310000210018270000150020326000460021825000400026430000150030430000100031902000180032965100190034765100440036665000440041005000140045454600150046850501410048352006590062433600090128333700150129233800110130720260803094205.0251212s1998    xx            000 0 und d1 aThe wind-up bird chronicle /cHaruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.1 aNejimaki-dori kuronikuru  aMurakami, Haruki0 aRubin, Jay  aNew York :bVintage International,c1998.  aFirst Vintage International edition  a607 pages:  c20 cm  a0-679-77543-9  aJapanvFiction  aJapanxPolitics and governmentvFiction  aMan-woman relationshipszJapanvFICTION  aM93w 1998  ain English  a"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso.  aHaving 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.  atext  aunmediated  avolume