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Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami
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Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers. Kafka on the Shore follows Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers.

Kafka on the Shore follows Kafka Tamura, who 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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

Wonderful... Magical and outlandish - Daily Mail

Hypnotic, spellbinding - The Times

Cool, fluent and addictive - Daily Telegraph

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529982350

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Philip Gabriel

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 528

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About the Author

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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