TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami, Haruki
TI  - Kafka on the shore
SN  - 9780099458326
U1  - 895.635 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books Ltd.
KW  - Japan
KW  - Runaway teenagers
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Japanese fiction
N2  - Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist


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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