Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

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Vintage
01 October 2005

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

By: Haruki Murakami
Translated by: Philip Gabriel
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9780099458326
ISBN 10: 0099458322
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 October 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. The most recent of his many honours is the Franz Kafka Prize.

Reviews for Kafka on the Shore

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 *

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