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Kafka on the Shore

Name: Kafka on the Shore
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784877989
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By Haruki Murakami

Series: Murakami Collectible Classics

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami weaves together the stories of a teenager named Kafka who runs away from home to escape a dark prophecy and an elderly man named Nakata who has lost his memory but can communicate with cats. Their parallel journeys unfold in a dreamlike odyssey full of metaphysical encounters and mystical elements. As their worlds intertwine, deeper truths emerge, exploring themes of identity and fate.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by a blend of magical realism and engaging storytelling that explores themes of self-discovery, fate, and the subconscious. Its narrative weaves together the journey of a runaway teenager and an elderly man with supernatural abilities, creating a surreal and thought-provoking experience.

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. High school & older.

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication of Novelist as a Vocation.

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the author.

Kafka Tamura 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.

Wonderful... Magical and outlandish - Daily Mail

Hypnotic, spellbinding - The Times

Cool, fluent and addictive - Daily Telegraph

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami has been described as a wonderfully magical and bewildering novel. It is praised for its brilliantly conceived plot, bold surreal scope, and exuberant storytelling, while also being called cool, fluent, and addictive. The book is considered hypnotic and exhilarating, making it a pleasurable read.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784877989

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 45.0mm

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 223.0mm

Weight: 610g

Pages: 528

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About the Author

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.