Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami
Harry Hartog's review
This story follows Kafka as a teenage runaway, and Nakata, an older man with strange abilities. Nothing prepared me for the insanity this book holds, this is a great pick for a first timer's read of Murakami. - Michael, Harry Hartog Penrith
Description
Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist
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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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'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail
'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN:
- 9780099458326
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 512
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Imprint:
- Vintage
- Weight:
- 356 g