![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review A stunning work of art. The Washington Post Book World A significant advance in Murakamis art. Murakamis most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakamis most acclaimed and beloved novels. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the citys placid surface. Book Synopsis 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 Japans forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Murakamis most ambitious work to date.-Publishers Weekly. About the Book Magnificent.(Murakami) has taken a pre-millennial swing for the fences a la David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo (Newsweek). ![]()
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