![]() Aside from the Wako Building in front of which they work, other Ginza landmarks include the Sony Building, a multi-storied Sony showroom, the Mitsukoshi department store and the Kabukiza Theatre. ![]() In The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Toru and his 15-year-old neighbor May Kasahara work part-time in Ginza, surveying the baldness of the men they see walk by for a wig company. Though a pretty common theme throughout Murakami’s work, wartime Manchuria and Siberia play especially large roles in this novel. Toru’s adventures take place entirely in Tokyo, although the lengthy monologues of Lieutenant Mamiya bring us to wartime Manchuria, Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the book he has many strange experiences, such as entering another dimension via a portal at the bottom of a well and then doing an unusual job for a woman he meets in Shinjuku. The story is told from the point of view of protagonist Toru Okada, who goes from searching for his missing cat to searching for his missing wife. Originally published in the mid 1990’s, the novel is set in 1984 Tokyo (and possibly in the same universe as 1Q84). ![]() The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is considered by many to be Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece. ![]()
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