The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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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. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

subjects: literary fiction,  contemporary fantasy,  psychological fiction,  parapsychology,  fate and fatalism,  Fiction,  Japanese fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  Marriage,  Missing persons,  Politics and government,  Translations into English,  Fiction, psychological,  Japan, fiction,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Fiction, political,  Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author),  Japanese Psychological fiction,  Heisei period,  New York Times reviewed

People: Toru Okada,  Kumiko Okada,  Noboru Wataya,  May Kasahara,  Tokutaro Mamiya,  Malta Kano,  Creta Kano,  Nutmeg Akasaka,  Cinnamon Akasaka

Places: Japan,  Tokyo,  Manchuria,  Ginza,  Shinjuku,  Shinjuku Gyoen,  Akasaka,  Setagaya Ward,  Ueno Zoo,  Shinagawa

Times: 20th century