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Japan's 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.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's 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 Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, 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.
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##2017.4.26-7.2. 是我最近一年以来最好的英文小说阅读体验！彻底改变了我以前对于村上春树的偏见。虽然我觉得有点头重脚轻，但是总体节奏还是很好。想象又危险又美妙。好喜欢Okada桑的人物设定，我也想找一口最深的井沉下去。
##too vast? i thought the war part was a bit forced, but...
##这本不太好评价，没有Dance Dance Dance和Kafka on the Shore节制，同样的题材村上的短篇要更好，应该出个修订版。不过也许是读太多了……
##First time violence, nice and easy
##Too many metaphors. Cannot understand...
##开始了才意识到这书老厚……！Kindle党的苦楚
##a big fat book to read
##读过的村上最佳……
##First time violence, nice and easy