When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
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(1997)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.
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literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Missing persons, Politics and government, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, political, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese Psychological fiction, Heisei period, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
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