Book 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.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and
non-fiction. His works include
Norwegian Wood,
The Wi
nd-U
p Bird Chronicle
,
Kafka on the Shore
,
After Dark
and
What I Talk About When I Talk About Runnin
g. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the
most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize,
whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.
S. Naipaul.
