Books like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A man searching for his missing wife is drawn into a surreal underworld of psychic prostitutes, political assassins, and a well that leads somewhere else entirely.
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Killing Commendatore
A portrait painter in a rural Japanese valley discovers a hidden painting and a mysterious pit, and both lead him towards a vanished man and the nature of inspiration.
Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Near the end of the Second World War, a group of reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village are left behind there when the villagers flee a plague.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
number9dream
Eiji Miyake, a young man from a small island, comes to Tokyo to find the father he has never met, and his search slides between reality, daydreams and video games.
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Shangguan Lu, a peasant woman in Gaomi, bears eight daughters and at last a son, Jintong, whose account of the family runs from the Japanese invasion to the 1990s.
Coin Locker Babies
Abandoned as newborns in coin lockers at a Tokyo station, Hashi and Kiku grow up together in an orphanage and on a remote island, then go to the city, one in search of his mother and the other in search of a weapon.
Going After Cacciato
A soldier named Cacciato walks away from the war in Vietnam, saying he is going to Paris, and his squad is sent after him across eight thousand miles.
Beauty Is a Wound
Dewi Ayu, a beautiful prostitute, rises from her grave after twenty-one years in a town on the coast of Java, and her story and her daughters' run through Indonesia's colonial past and its massacres.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Ximen Nao, a landowner executed in the land reform of 1950, protests his innocence in hell and is sent back to his village as a donkey, then an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey, to watch China change over fifty years.
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.