Kafka on the Shore

ISBN-13:	9781400079278
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/03/2006
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	10,139
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.77(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

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