| Edition |
First Vintage International edition. |
| Description |
607 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. |
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Translation of: ねじまき鳥クロニクル. |
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"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Japan -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction, Japanese.
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Man-woman relationships (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Psychological fiction, Japanese (OCoLC)fst01736186
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Japan (OCoLC)fst01204082
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Political fiction (OCoLC)fst01726702
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Psychological fiction (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Magic realist fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Political fiction.
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| Added Author |
Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator.
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| Added Title |
Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English
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| Translation Of: |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1994 4103534036 (DLC) 94464860 (OCoLC)166888317 |
| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English. Wind-up bird chronicle. 1st American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 0679446699 (DLC) 97002813 (OCoLC)36510552 |
| ISBN |
0679775439 (paperback) |
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9780679775430 (paperback) |
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