Kafka on the Shore
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Murakami, Haruki |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Subject: | FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| FICTION / Magical Realism | |
| FICTION / Pacific Rim | |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Published: | January 2006 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 480 |
| Size: | 7.99in x 5.15in x 0.98in |
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | Kafka on the Shore 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. As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, 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. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. |
| Review Quote* | "As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion."-The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." –The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." –New York Times |
| Biographical Note | Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. From the Hardcover edition. |