The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami — a Japanese writer who became a classic during his lifetime. For the novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” he received the prestigious Yomiuri Literary Prize, which has also been awarded to Yukio Mishima, Kobo Abe, Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and others.

First, Toru Okada's cat went missing. Then a stranger tried to have phone sex with him. And then his wife Kumiko disappeared. And all of this under the mechanical cry of the Wind-Up Bird. The search leads the protagonist to an old, dried-up well. His intuition tells Toru to descend to the very bottom. From the cool darkness, he enters another reality and then is transported to a distant past. If Toru can connect all the threads, he will save Kumiko. The only problem is that her brother, the famous politician Noboru Wataya, will try to prevent this.