{"product_id":"the-windup-bird-chronicle-9780679446699","title":"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/strong\u003e by Murakami, Haruki. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679446699.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapans 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.\n\nIn a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japans forgotten campaign in Manchuria.\n\nGripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.\n\nFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949398913077,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679446699","price":126.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679446699_f90c40a5-c8fd-47a9-9fc5-9ddb64a87f65_937e52c9-575f-447a-98aa-b1dfc58be90d.jpg?v=1792201790","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-windup-bird-chronicle-9780679446699","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}