Kafka On The Shore

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. 'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic; spellbinding' The Times 'Cool; fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph