Toru spends more time in the well, where he slowly reaches “ that place where the core of things is located“. Emerging from the well with a blueish mark on his face, he meets a wealthy woman named Nutmeg who pays him for sexual favours, and buys him the abandoned property, installing him in a house managed by her mute son Cinnamon. Toru climbs into a well in an abandoned property and has dream-like visions of entering Room 208 of a hotel room. Kumiko disappears without explanation the bullying Noboru tells him that Kumiko has been having an affair and wants a divorce. Toru goes in search of his missing cat, leading him to meet a series of mysterious and eccentric characters: May Kasahara, a teenager in his neighbourhood a psychic named Malta Kano who tells him he must “ find the deepest well and go down to the bottom“ and Lieutenant Mamiya, who describes a nightmarish military mission in Manchuria during World War II, in which he was forced to watch a comrade being skinned alive and was left to die in a well. Toru Okada, a meek unemployed clerk in his early 30s, is married to Kumiko, the sister of the powerful politician Noboru Wataya.
In which I review The Wind-Up Chronicle, Haruki Murakami’s 1997 novel about a man whose marriage is in crisis, sending him on a surreal journey into his own subconscious and the traumatised soul of post-World War II Japan.
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