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The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Author
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Uniform Title
Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Description
611 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Rubin, Jay, 1941-, Kidd, Chip, and Beletsky, Misha, 1972-

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Summary
While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex; a man describes wartime torture; Okada finds himself in a netherworld at the bottom of a well. Along the way he examines his disintegrating marriage-- and the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. -- adapted from back cover, Vintage softcover reprint
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ISBN
0679446699 (alk. paper)
9780679446699 (alk. paper)
0965341984 (paperback)
9780965341981 (paperback)
9780679775430
0679775439
Bibliography Note
"Works consulted": page 613.
Other Forms
Also issued online.
Exhibitions
Related archival materials: Exhibited: "Everything not made by nature is design: an exhibition from the Chip Kidd archives," curated by Alyssa Carver, Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 2015.
Awards
New York Times Notable Books of the Year, 1997.
American Library Association Notable Books, 1998.
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