Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada’s vague and blameless life-spend cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table-are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Haruki Murakami
Haruki Hurakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. He met his wife, Yoko, at university and they opened a jazz club in Tokyo called Peter Cat. The massive success of his novel Norwegian Wood (1987) made him a national celebrity. He fled Japan and did not return until 1995. Is other books include after the quake, Dance Dance Dance, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, A Wild Sheep Chase, Underground, his first work of non-fiction, Sputnik Sweet-heart and South of the Border, West of the Sun. He has translated into Japanese the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, John Irving and Raymond Carver.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin is a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and he has also translated Murakami's Norwegian Wood and after the quake.
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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