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Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

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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.

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Publisher
Harvill Press, Alfred A. Knopf
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9781448103690
Genre
FantasyFiction
Topics
Coming of ageFate and prophecyParallel journeysMagical realismIdentity and memory

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