Kafka on the Shore / Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
By: Murakami, Haruki
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Contributor(s): Gabriel, Philip [Translator.].
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Vintage BooksDate of publication: 2005Edition: First Vintage International open-market edition.Description: 489 pages: 18 cm.ISBN: 9780307275264.Other title: Umibe no Kafuka.Subject(s): Runaway teenagers -- Fiction | Parent and child -- FictionDDC classification: F M931 2005 KAF Summary: A teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. Later, he meets an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder.
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A teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. Later, he meets an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder.
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