Kafka on the Shore

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Kafka on the Shore

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ISBN: 9781400079278
author: Haruki Murakami
translator: Philip Gabriel
publishing house: Vintage
publication date: 2006 -1
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 16.00
number of pages: 480

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海辺のカフカ [Umibe no Kafuka]

Haruki Murakami    translator: Philip Gabriel

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Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, 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. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers.

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