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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world's greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender" (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. "As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion."--Chicago Tribune
Kafka on the Shore
$18.00
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- January 3, 2006
- ISBN
- 9781400079278
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Series
- Vintage International
- Age range
- 13–17
- Grade range
- 8–12
- BISAC
- Fiction, Literary, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Contemporary
- Related subjects
- Runaway teenagers, Parent and child, Murder, Blessing and cursing, Fate and fatalism, Magic realism (Literature), Magic realist fiction, Japan