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Kafka on the shore
Haruki Murakami
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Description for Kafka on the shore
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 181 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 334.
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. 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. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both ... Read more
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. 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. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099494096
SKU
V9780099494096
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About Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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
'For sheer love of a thumping narrative, the novel delivers gloriously-Inventive, alluring' David Mitchell
Guardian
'Wonderful-Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times 'A magnificently bewildering achievement-Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot-Exuberant storytelling' Independent on ... Read more
Guardian
'Wonderful-Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times 'A magnificently bewildering achievement-Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot-Exuberant storytelling' Independent on ... Read more