London: The Harvill Press, 1997. remainder mark btm pg edge; printing number sequence on the copyright page: 135798642; Please, place cursor over picture and be aware that in reality colours are slightly darker than online. If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that theme would be responsibility. Toru Okada loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician. So bad things come in threes for Toru Okada... Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose.. Trade Paperback. Good.