01872cam a2200313 4500 1147834957 TxAuBib ||||||t19981997||||||||||||||||||||und|u 97002813 9780679775430 pbk. $14.00 ($19.50 Can.) 0679775439 pbk. $14.00 ($19.50 Can.) TxAuBib Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru English. The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1998. ©1997. 607 p. ; 21 cm. ""This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997""--T.p. verso. ""Works consulted,"" p. [609]. Includes a list of author's works ([p. 612-613]). 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. Man-woman relationships Japan Fiction. Japan Fiction. Japan Politics and government Fiction. Psychological fiction. Rubin, Jay, 1941-