An ordinary Tokyo man's search for his missing wife spirals into a surreal descent through wells, war memories, and the unconscious.
Books mentioned in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (3)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: “"After thinking long and hard about it, I concluded that it was from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The hero ... manages to escape from Italy to Switzerland by boat..." — discussed at length as a remembered story about a man who keeps eati”
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: “This meaningless response hovered in the air above the table like the floating island in Gulliver's Travels.”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “"I knew the names of all the brothers Karamazov" — offered as one of the narrator's distinguishing characteristics.”