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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
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Description for Kafka on the Shore
Paperback. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Vintage Magic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099458326
SKU
V9780099458326
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99-99
About Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland ... Read more
Reviews for Kafka on the Shore
Wonderful... Magical and outlandish
Daily Mail
A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling
Independent on Sunday
Cool, fluent and addictive
Daily Telegraph
Hypnotic, spellbinding
The Times
Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure
Evening Standard
Daily Mail
A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling
Independent on Sunday
Cool, fluent and addictive
Daily Telegraph
Hypnotic, spellbinding
The Times
Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure
Evening Standard