A dreamlike and compelling tour de force (Chicago Tribune)--an astonishingly imaginative detective story an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Now with a new introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife s missing cat--and then for his wife as well--in a netherworld beneath the city s placid surface. As these searches intersect he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping prophetic and suffused with comedy and menace this is one of Haruki Murakami s most acclaimed and beloved novels.