The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiToru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided

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Nerra is curious when her great-grandmother's box of artefacts opens for a second time

And a flood that has trapped them all

Close to breaking point

700 images illustrate the work of Gapuwiyak women past and present

Persian dream texts and Arabic concepts

Chico's grandpa has taken him on holiday where he grew up as a child

and the soul is sucked away

completely

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But Bani wanted more than this - he wanted to make his own choices

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