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.