Kafka on the Shore - Hardcover

Haruki Murakami

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400043662 ISBN 13: 9781400043668

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The unlikely alliance between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, brings dramatic changes to both characters as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, sometimes violent, sometimes fantastical world. 60,000 first printing.

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Review:

"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."
- "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 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."
-New York Times

From the Publisher:

The most unusual and mesmerising novel yet from Japanese cult author, Haruki Murakami

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400043662
• ISBN 13: 9781400043668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436