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By (author) Murakami, Haruki

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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.

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.

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”Cool, fluent and addictive” Daily Telegraph

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Addictive… Exhilarating… A pleasure’ Evening Standard

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Wonderful… Magical and outlandish

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A magnificently bewildering achievement… Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot… Exuberant storytelling

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Cool, fluent and addictive

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Hypnotic, spellbinding

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Addictive… Exhilarating… A pleasure

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Murakami”s most addictive fix to date

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Engrossing and wildly inventive

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Laden with philosophical overtones and enchanting wit

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Murakami”s exquisitely simple prose and deft evocation of the surreal are captivating and sublime

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The mysteries are never tainted by explanation, merely beautifully described, delivering a hypnotic read

Biographical note:
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.

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Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky… A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist