Murakami's masterpiece - for the first time directly translated from Japanese and presented as an unabridged reading by David Nathan.

A dissatisfied thirty-year-old man, recently unemployed and encouraged by his capable wife to engage in self-exploration, is Murakami's hero Toru Okada in this vibrant novel. If he can fly, it’s more like a toy bird, wound up by who knows who. Before this gentleman, the Wind-Up Bird, realities suddenly unfold that he had been unaware of until now. Erotic, economic, and political. Strangers invade his quiet home: a bold, intelligent sixteen-year-old, a fortune teller, an old officer, and they all bring their strange stories with them—stories that turn out to be secretly interconnected. Even regarding his own marriage, about his seemingly loyal wife, dizzying suspicions arise for the hero. Beneath the everyday life of urban society, other forces are at work: secret, abyssal desires, the history of the Sino-Japanese War; or even something as old-fashioned as fate. In this still contemporary novel, Haruki Murakami explores the soul of the globalized individual.