Name: Kafka on the Shore
ISBN: 9781400079278

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Onstage, Off-Kilter

For when you want atmosphere, strangeness, and a little theatrical poise.

Come here for

Performance-conscious prose
A Murakami mood, staged

Expect

Literary fantasy with a Japanese register
Quiet shifts in voice and tone

Book Details

Authors: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: January 3, 2006
Format: Paperback
Theme: Japanese Literary Collections · Contemporary Fantasy
Reading lane: Japanese Literary Collections

Affinity

Publisher Categories

Contemporary Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Magical Realism

About This Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” ( The New Yorker ) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Mur...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” ( The New Yorker ) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author 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, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle .... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —Chicago Tribune