![]() The home of May Kasahara, a teenage girl who was injured in a motorcycle accident and does not attend school, is also located there. The abandoned house is seen as a bad omen, most recently exemplified in a familicide. Kumiko mentions that she had spotted the cat there, hanging up before Toru can ask for details. Toru’s pursuit of the cat leads him to an alley located behind an abandoned house. Once employed at a law firm, wearing suits every day and following a strict routine, Toru sees life for the first time as a non-conformist. Strange omens appear as Toru leaves his old world behind. In one, narrator Toru Okada is a newly unemployed househusband whose days revolve around trips to the grocery store and his wife, Kumiko, for whom he feels both affection and an awareness of her growing aloofness.īook One or Book of the Thieving Magpie (泥棒かささぎ編, Dorobō kasasagi hen) opens with Toru searching for the couple’s newly missing cat, Noboru Wataya, named after Kumiko’s tyrannical brother. ![]() ![]() In Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, the theme of many worlds existing alongside one reality embodies several forms. ![]()
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