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020			_a9780099458326
082			_a895.635 _bMUR
100			_aMurakami, Haruki _96204
245			_aKafka on the shore
260			_bPenguin Books Ltd. _aLondon _c2005
300			_a505 p.
365			_aINR _b599.00
520			_aCats 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.
650			_aJapan _96318
650			_aRunaway teenagers _91883
650			_aDetective and mystery stories _97092
650			_aJapanese fiction _97093
942			_2ddc _cBK