A mystical experience at the bottom of a dry well leaves him with a blue stain on his cheek. A mysterious woman calls Okada regularly, insisting on phone sex. Peculiar events and strange coincidences abound. As Okada searches for his wife (in an abandoned lot near his home, and in a city park), he encounters characters who are dream-like projections of his own muted fears and desires-among them, a precocious, death-obsessed, 16-year-old neighbor and Okada's brother-in-law, a sinister politician. After his wife disappears, unemployed 30-year-old paralegal Toru Okada gets embroiled in a surreal, sprawling drama-part detective story, part history lesson, part metaphysical speculation, part satire-that marks Japanese novelist Murakami's (Dance Dance Dance) most ambitious work to date.
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