# Kafka on the Shore

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- Book: [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore) ([Kafka on the Shore.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-832-6
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2012-10-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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