Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Haruki Murakami
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099458326
£8.99
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EAN: 9780099458326
Published: 4 Oct 2012
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly 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 many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.
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Wonderful... Magical and outlandish
- Daily Mail
A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling
- Independent on Sunday
Cool, fluent and addictive
- Daily Telegraph
Hypnotic, spellbinding
- The Times
Wonderful... Magical and outlandish
- Daily Mail
Murakami's most addictive fix to date
- Independent
Engrossing and wildly inventive
- Times Literary Supplement
Laden with philosophical overtones and enchanting wit
- Observer
Murakami's exquisitely simple prose and deft evocation of the surreal are captivating and sublime.
- Sunday Times
The mysteries are never tainted by explanation, merely beautifully described, delivering a hypnotic read
- Times Higher Education Supplement
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
