The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle PG_Gift_Guide A man starts driving without

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going

Writing with his customary deftness and humor

and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us

After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole

Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle PG_Gift_Guide A man starts driving withoutA "dreamlike and compelling tour de force (Chicago Tribune)an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japans forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Now with a new introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing catand then for his wife as wellin a netherworld beneath the citys placid surface.