Kafka on the Shore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400079278)

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

Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN-10: 1400079276
ISBN-13: 9781400079278
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2006
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/15/2006 pg. 28
Kliatt 07/01/2006 pg. 21