Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore by Amazonundefined

Price last update: 11/03/2024

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.*
Murakami's new book
Novelist as a Vocation
is available now
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'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish'
Daily Mail
'Hypnotic, spellbinding'
The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive'
Daily Telegraph
Recenzja
Wonderful... Magical and outlandish
Daily Mail
A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling
Independent on Sunday
Cool, fluent and addictive
Daily Telegraph
Hypnotic, spellbinding
The Times
Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure
Evening Standard
O autorze
In 1978,
Haruki Murakami
was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel,
Hear the Wind Sing
, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including
A Wild Sheep Chase
and
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
and the
End of the World
, but it was
Norwegian Wood
, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
,
1Q84,
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
and
Men Without Women
, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.