A dreamlike and compelling tour de force (Chicago Tribune) an astonishingly imaginative
detective story an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried
secrets from Japan s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new
introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his
wife s missing cat and then for his wife as well in a netherworld beneath the city s placid
surface. As these searches intersect he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists.
Gripping prophetic and suffused with comedy and menace this is one of Haruki Murakami s most
acclaimed and beloved novels.
