ねじまき鳥クロニクル
link
summary
In Haruki Murakami's "ねじまき鳥クロニクル" (translated to "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"), Toru Okada is a young man on a search-- a search for his missing wife, Kumiko, and for his own place in the world. As he seeks answers to the questions that have come to haunt him since he left his job as a contented househusband, his search brings him into contact with a cast of characters ranging from a teenage girl who wants to befriend him to a pair of old war veterans who watch the world from a bar run by a former prostitute. As Toru delves deeper into their stories and recounts his own, readers may find themselves questioning what's really happening and what's just a figment of Toru's imagination. This is a haunting, introspective, and surreal novel that asks difficult questions about identity, memory, love, and loss in typical Haruki Murakami style.