Kafka On the Shore
At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odyssey where he shall encounter some very strange characters indeed.
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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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Additional information
| Weight | 356 g |
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| Dimensions | 198 × 129 × 32 mm |
| Author | |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Imprint | Vintage |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 505 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 895.635 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |