TY - BOOK N2 - While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex, a man describes wartime torture, he finds himself at the bottom of a well. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation. AB - While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex, a man describes wartime torture, he finds himself at the bottom of a well. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation. T1 - The wind-up bird chronicle / DA - 1998, c1997. CY - New York : AU - Murakami, Haruki, AU - Rubin, Jay, ET - 1st Vintage International ed. CN - PL856.U673 CN - PL856.U673 PB - Vintage International, PP - New York : LA - eng PY - 1998, c1997. N1 - "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso. ID - 327860 KW - Man-woman relationships SN - 9780679775430 (pbk.) SN - 0679775439 (pbk.) TI - The wind-up bird chronicle / ER -