The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and among Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

Inside a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat-and after that for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these queries intersect, he encounters a bizarre band of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with humor and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective tale, an account of the disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten marketing campaign in Manchuria during Globe War II.