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The Wind-up Bird ChronicleThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru) (ISBN 0679775439) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. It is about a low key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat disappears.This triggers a chain of events that proves that his seemingly mundane monotunous life is much more complicated than it appears. Also examined in the novel is the Manchukuo episode of World War II and its place in Japanese history. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Oe Kenzaburo. external links Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at Amazon with some comments on the book Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The
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