The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiJapan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the

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The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens

The dramatic discoveries and irrefutable evidence:An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramidThousand-year-old spaceflight navigation chartsComputer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruinsA map of the land beneath the ice cap of AntarcticaA giant spaceport discovered in the AndesIncludes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization