“You’ve been living with me all this time,” she said, “but you’ve hardly paid any attention to me. Additionally, Toru has prepared beef stir fried with green peppers, which she also detests.

When Kumiko finally arrives home exhausted, she realizes that Toru has bought blue tissues and patterned toilet paper, which she hates and never buys. However, Kumiko is very late and does not even call, which worries Toru. He goes on completing house work and chores and prepares dinner for when Kumiko comes home. Toru reflects on his life now recently unemployed, finding it refreshing staying at home and not having to rush into work with all the traffic. She had been arriving later and later over the past month.” When the phone rings in the evening neither of them answers it.Ĭhapter 2 Full Moon and Eclipse of the Sun - On Horses Dying in the Stables. When Toru returns home later he begins to prepare dinner for him and his wife. There he meets a girl, “ She couldn’t have been more than fifteen or sixteen”, who promises to be on the lookout for his cat. Toru decides to go and look for their missing cat, Noboru Wataya, and climbs a wall to go look in a dead-end alley. However, this the call turns into telephone sex initiated by the woman, which leads Toru to hang up on her and not answer the phone again. The third phone call is from the mystery woman again.

She is fine with Toru being at home and taking his time at finding a new job. The next phone call is from his wife Kumiko. After she abruptly cuts of the call he goes on cooking his spaghetti and begins with some house work. Toru receives a short and mysterious phone call from a woman whose voice he does not recognize although she says he knows her. Toru has left his job at a law firm and is currently unemployed, by choice. In chapter one we meet the protagonist Toru Okada. Chapter 1 Tuesday’s Wind-up Bird - Six Fingers and Four Breasts

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