The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

While searching for his missing wife, Japanese lawyer Toru Okada has strange experiences and meets strange characters. A woman wants phone sex; a man describes wartime torture; Okada finds himself in a netherworld at the bottom of a well. Along the way he examines his disintegrating marriage-- and the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. -- adapted from back cover, Vintage softcover reprint