Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

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Author: Murakami, Haruki
ISBN: 9780099458326
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2005
Pages: 512
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
Format: Paperback / softback

Description
Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist


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 an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.

'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail

'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times

'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph

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