Literary · Fantasy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A jobless Tokyo man's cat vanishes, then his wife does too. As he searches, he meets a series of odd people and pieces together stories that reach back to wartime Manchuria.
- First published
- 1994
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like patient, strange novels that let ordinary routines drift into the surreal.
Skip this if you want clear answers or are not up for some very graphic wartime violence.
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