Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Paperback by Murakami, Haruki; Rubin, Jay (TRN), ISBN 0099448793, ISBN-13 9780099448792, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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 (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.