{"product_id":"9780099448792","title":"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Murakami, Haruki \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/04\/1999,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 624 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099448792,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToru Okada's cat has disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis wife is growing more distant every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now*'Visionary...a bold and generous book' New York Times'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' Independent on Sunday'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021780553772,"sku":"9780099448792","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9780099448792.jpg?v=1698744212","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780099448792","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}