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Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami
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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.

*Murakami’s new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now*

‘Wonderful… Magical and outlandish’ Daily Mail

‘Hypnotic, spellbinding’ The Times

‘Cool, fluent and addictive’ Daily Telegraph

Imprint: Vintage

Published: Oct/2005

ISBN: 9780099458326

Length : 512 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

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.

*Murakami’s new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now*

‘Wonderful… Magical and outlandish’ Daily Mail

‘Hypnotic, spellbinding’ The Times

‘Cool, fluent and addictive’ Daily Telegraph

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Reviews

Wonderful... Magical and outlandish

A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling

Cool, fluent and addictive

Hypnotic, spellbinding

Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami's first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize in 1979. He is the author of many novels including Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka on the Shore. He has written three short story collections: The Elephant Vanishes, After the Quake, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. He has received numerous international literary honors, including the Jerusalem Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and the Noma Literary Prize, as well a feature in TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2015. Murakami's work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

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