Kafka On The Shore

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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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099458326
Published: October 2005

Number of pages: 512
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 32 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing