The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru) (ISBN 0679775439) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. It is about a low key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat disappears. This triggers a chain of events that proves that his seemingly mundane monotonous life is much more complicated than it appears. Also examined in the novel is the Manchukuo episode of World War II and its place in Japanese history. Excerpts were published in The New Yorker. The American translation was published in 1998.

Missing Chapters

Two chapters from the original three volume paperback edition of Nejimakidori Kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) were not included in the English translation by Jay Rubin. The chapters in question were originally found in the third volume Nejimakidori Chronicle Vol. 3 torisashi otoko hen . In addition, one of the chapters near the excluded two was moved ahead of another chapter, taking it out of the context of the original order. The two missing chapters elaborate on the relationship between main characters Toru Okada and Creta Kano, and a "hearing" of the wind-up bird as Toru burns a box of Kumiko's belongings.

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