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Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.
To say that the fantastic elements of Kafka On The Shore are complicated and never fully resolved is not to suggest that the novel fails. Although it may not live up to Murakami's masterful The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Nakata and Kafka's fates keep the reader enthralled to the final pages, and few will complain about the loose threads at the end. --Regina Marler
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Book Description Condition: As New. Uncorrected Book Proof of the First UK Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '24681097531'. Publisher's illustrated card covers now with removable, archival protective glassine cover. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Octavo. pp. [6], 442. Complete with two promotional postcards. A book in Fine condition. Seller Inventory # 100689
Book Description Condition: As New. Uncorrected Book Proof of the First UK Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '24681097531'. Publisher's illustrated card covers now with archival protective glassine cover. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Octavo. pp. [6], 442. A book in Fine condition. Seller Inventory # 100802
Book Description 8vo, 505pp. A very good hardback copy with some slight yellowing and marking in some places. In a very good slipcase with a small tear to bottom corner. . Limited edition. No. 28 of 1000, signed and numbered by the author. Seller Inventory # 122453
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