Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Oct '05

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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.

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.

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'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure’ Evening Standard

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 *

ISBN: 9780099458326

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 32mm

Weight: 356g

512 pages