Kafka on the Shore

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophecy.

The ageing 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 odyssesys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys  a Hegel-spouting girl of the nght; 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… Magic and outlandish”, DAILY MAIL

”A magnificently bewildering achievement… Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot… Exubertant storytelling”, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

”Hypnoticm spellbinding”, THE TIMES

”Cool, fluent and addictive”, DAILY TELEGRAPH

(From the backcover)