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Reviews" As powerful as" The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." - "The Chicago Tribune "" An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." - "The New Yorker "" If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." - "New York Times", "As powerful as" The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." -"The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -"The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." -"New York Times, "As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle .... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." -- The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." --The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." --The New York Times, "As powerful as" The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." -"The Chicago Tribune ""An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -"The New Yorker ""If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." -"New York Times", "As powerful as" The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." -"The Chicago Tribune ""An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -"The New Yorker ""If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." -"New York Times", "As powerful asThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." New York Times, "As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." New York Times
Dewey Decimal895.6/35
Synopsis"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., 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, 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, Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. High school & older., Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton 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.