Kafka on the Shore

'A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven bu a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling' Independent on Sunday

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The ageing Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his highly 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 the many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.

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