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"Japans ranghöchster Romancier heute ist Haruki Murakami - ein Mythenschöpfer für die Jahrtausendwende, ein hinterlistiger Weiser." (Publishers Weekly)
Toru Okada, ein unzufriedener Mann von 30 Jahren, gerade ohne Arbeit, von seiner tüchtigen Frau zur Selbsterforschung ermutigt, ist Held des Romans, eines Romans über die verschüttete Seele des globalisierten Menschen, der zwar fliegen kann, aber nur wie ein Spielzeugvogel, den irgend jemand aufgezogen hat.

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A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami´s most celebrated and influential masterpiece

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Toru Okada´s cat has disappeared.

His wife is growing more distant every day.

Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.

As 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.

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"It´s a bizarre trip and I like it for the exact opposite reason that I like Belsky´s book. That book is entirely practical in terms of life work strategies and this book is like a David Lynch film in a book." Pam Fujimoto Drum

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