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Kafka on the shore

Murakami, Haruki 1949- (Author). Gabriel, Philip, 1953- (Added Author).

Summary: This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle-yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.

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  • ISBN: 9781400044818 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • ISBN: 1400044812 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • ISBN: 9781400044818 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
  • ISBN: 1400044812 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
  • Physical Description: electronic
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    436 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.

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Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Publishing Group, 2005. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1842 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 489 KB).
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  • Baker & Taylor
    The unlikely alliance between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, brings dramatic changes to both characters as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, sometimes violent, sometimes fantastical world. 60,000 first printing.
  • Random House, Inc.
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton.

    Now with a new introduction by the author.

    Here we meet 15-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.” —The Chicago Tribune
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