Murakami, Haruki creator Rubin, Jay text xx New York Vintage International 1998 First Vintage International edition monographic und

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607 pages: 20 cm 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. "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso. Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. in English Japan Fiction Japan Politics and government Fiction Man-woman relationships Japan FICTION M93w 1998 0-679-77543-9 251212 20260803094205.0