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
ISBN: | 9781400079278 |
Publication date: | 3rd January 2006 |
Author: | Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel |
Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 467 pages |
Series: | Vintage International |
Genres: |
General Fiction Magical realism Contemporary fantasy |