Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore Hardback Book

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakamis mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the authorKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his fathers 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 ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegelspouting girl of the night a forest harbours soldiers apparently unaged 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. Wonderful... Magical and outlandish Daily MailHypnotic, spellbinding The TimesCool, fluent and addictive Daily Telegraph | Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore Hardback Book