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Title: KAFKA ON THE SHORE
By: Haruki Murakami
Format: Paperback

List price: £11.99


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ISBN 10: 1843432285
ISBN 13: 9781843432289
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 6 January, 2005
Edition: Anz/Nz/Sa ed
Pages: 512
Description: The most unusual and mesmerising novel yet from cult author, Haruki Murakami. Without time or place it occupies a realm in the midst of fairy tale and myth, between dream, reality, sleep and waking.
Synopsis: A stunning work of art that bears no comparisons' the New York Observer wrote of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 'and this is also true of this magnificent new novel, which is every bit as ambitious, expansive and bewitching. A tour-de-force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters. At fifteen, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. And the aging Nakata,tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly overturned. Their parallel odysseys, as mysterious to us as they are to them, are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Fish tumble in storms from the sky; cats and people carry on conversations; a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle. Yet this, like everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate en
Publication: UK
Imprint: The Harvill Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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