The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Espionage Thrillers which won the Portico Prize

which won the Portico Prize in 2006

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L

including Louki herself

of Heracles and Theseus and Perseus

Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Espionage Thrillers which won the Portico PrizeToru 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