Chronicle of the Winding Bird

The masterpiece by today's greatest cult writer. Toru Okada, a young Japanese man living a completely normal life, sees his life transformed after an anonymous phone call from a woman. Increasingly strange characters begin to appear around him, and reality deteriorates into something phantasmagorical. His perception of the world becomes magical, dreams invade reality, and little by little, Toru feels compelled to resolve the conflicts he has carried throughout his life. This book features a gallery of characters as surprising as they are deeply authentic, and almost by magic, the everyday world of modern Japan appears to us as something strangely familiar.
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," which was awarded the Yomiuri Prize, is considered by many to be Murakami's masterpiece.