{"product_id":"kafka-on-the-shore-by-haruki-murakami-9781529982350","title":"Kafka on the Shore","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKafka on the Shore\u003c\/em\u003e follows Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWonderful... Magical and outlandish\u003c\/em\u003e - Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHypnotic, spellbinding\u003c\/em\u003e - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCool, fluent and addictive\u003c\/em\u003e - Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47754161225964,"sku":"9781529982350","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529982350-kafka-on-the-shore.jpg?v=1781658409","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/kafka-on-the-shore-by-haruki-murakami-9781529982350","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}