A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic magical masterpiece The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
now with a new introduction from the author Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is
growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has
recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds the tidy suburban realities of
Okada's vague and blameless life spent 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.
'Visionary...a bold and generous book' New York Times'Mesmerising surreal this really is the
work of a true original' The Times
