To summarize, a young man first loses his cat, then his wife, and things take a few turns from there...
This was a thick read at some 600 pages, interesting, and I was right, I had read it before, the scenes in the well were all I recalled, and those poorly, so it was if I were reading it fresh again. An interesting pool of characters, the twining of plots, surreal, Murakami is a masterful writer.