![]() ![]() I also thought it very interesting that Murakami was able to integrate war history with a totally unrelated plot, and it never hurts to include a cat as a central character in a book.” 2. Rather, it describes a kind of surrealistic fantasy which is set in modern, urban Tokyo. Our Kyoto expert guide Karin Swanson chose The Wind-up Bird Chronicle “because it doesn’t only focus on a overly-romanticized, exotic image of Japan as earlier novels often did. ![]() ![]() Venturing out into the world to bring both home, Okada meets one truly odd person after another and finds himself thrust into situations in which the bizarre seems normal and the mundane strange. One day, his cat runs away and his wife doesn’t come home from work. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Having scoured our bookshelves and after asking our expert guides to weigh in on their favorites, we’ve come up with our picks for the 10 best books set in Japan. ![]()
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