# Kafka on the Shore

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore

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- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-10-06

## Description

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. 'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times 'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph

## Editions

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- Translated by: Philip Gabriel
- ISBN: 978-15-2998-235-0
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_GB

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- Translated by: Philip Gabriel
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-798-9
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2022-08-04
- Language: en_GB

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Philip Gabriel
- Medium: audio
- Length: 19 h 8 min
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- ISBN: 978-14-7358-253-8
- Published: 2020-10-29
- Language: en_GB

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-832-6
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2012-10-04
- Language: en_GB

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Philip Gabriel
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4810-369-0
- Published: 2011-10-10
- Language: en_GB

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0007-927-8
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2006-01-03
- Language: en_US

### Kafka on the Shore

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-409-6
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2005-10-06
- Language: en_GB