The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Volume-1

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Volume-1 opens Haruki Murakami’s acclaimed trilogy with a quietly haunting mystery that unfolds in the heart of suburban Tokyo. Winner of the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 1996, this first installment introduces Toru Okada, a mild-mannered man who leaves his job at a law firm in search of deeper purpose. With the quiet support of his wife Kumiko, he settles into a domestic routine—until the disappearance of their cat sets off a chain of surreal events that upend his sense of reality.