Kafka on the Shore - Vintage International

International edition

Paperback (06 Oct 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton.

Now with a new introduction by the author.


Here we meet 15-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." -The Chicago Tribune

Book information

ISBN: 9780307275264
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: International edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 232g
Height: 108mm
Width: 174mm
Spine width: 29mm