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Short Description
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-mis...
Full bibliographic data for Kafka on the Shore
Title
Kafka on the Shore
Authors and contributors
By (author) Haruki Murakami, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Physical properties
Format: Paperback Number of pages: 489 Width: 109 mm Height: 176 mm Thickness: 28 mm Weight: 240 g
Language
English
ISBN
ISBN 13: 9780307275264 ISBN 10: 0307275264
Classifications
Libri: ENGM1010 Warengruppen-Systematik des deutschen Buchhandels: 21110 Libri: JAPA5010 BISAC V2.8: FIC009010,FIC061000
Publisher
Random House Inc.
Imprint name
VINTAGE
Publication date
06 October 2005
Author Information
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. From the Hardcover edition.
Review quote
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿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.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿New York Times