TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami, Haruki
AU  - Rubin, Jay
TI  - The wind-up bird chronicle
SN  - 0-679-77543-9
AV  - M93w 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Japan
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso
N2  - 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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