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Kafka on the Shore
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Author:
Murakami, Haruki
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2005
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-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.” —The Chicago Tribune

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Street Date:
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ISBN:
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Haruki Murakami. (2005). Kafka on the Shore. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Haruki Murakami. 2005. Kafka On the Shore. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Now with a new introduction by the author.
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