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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle A Novel Kyung-Ran Jo To describe it as merelyBy: Haruki Murakami Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998 09 01 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. Now with a new introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing