| Description |
607 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
"Works consulted," page [609]. |
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Includes a list of author's works ([pages 612-613]). |
| Summary |
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia. |
| Subject |
Japan -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Rubin, Jay, 1941-
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| Added Title |
Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English.
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| ISBN |
0679775439 (pbk.) |
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9780679775430 (pbk.) |
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