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Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami

By Haruki Murakami

By Haruki Murakami

By Haruki Murakami

By Haruki Murakami
Read by Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur

By Haruki Murakami
Read by Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $18.00

Jan 03, 2006 | ISBN 9781400079278

Ebook $12.99

Jan 18, 2005 | ISBN 9781400044818

Audiobook Download $27.50

Aug 06, 2013 | 1149 Minutes

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    About Kafka on the Shore

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.

    Now with a new introduction by the author.

    Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author 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, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

    “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle…. Reading Murakami … is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune

    About Kafka on the Shore

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.

    Now with a new introduction by the author.

    Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author 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, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

    “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle…. Reading Murakami … is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune

    About Kafka on the Shore

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.

    Now with a new introduction by the author.

    Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author 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, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

    “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle…. Reading Murakami … is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune

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    About Haruki Murakami

    HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients… More about Haruki Murakami

    About Haruki Murakami

    HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients… More about Haruki Murakami

    About Haruki Murakami

    HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients… More about Haruki Murakami

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fantasy

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 03, 2006 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400079278

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fantasy

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 18, 2005 | 448 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9781400044818

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fantasy | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $27.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 06, 2013 | 1149 Minutes | ISBN 9780804166553

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    Praise

    “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle…. Reading Murakami … is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

    “An insistently metaphysical mind-bender.”
    —The New Yorker

    “If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present.”
    —The New York Times

    Awards

    ALA Notable Adult Books SELECTION 2006

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