Kafka on the Shore A novel by Murakami (hardcover)

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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Narrative Type
Historical
Type
Book
Intended Audience
N/A
ISBN
9781400043668
Book Title
Kafka on the Shore
Original Language
Japanese
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2005
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Haruki Murakami
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Literary
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
448 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400043662
ISBN-13
9781400043668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
31000829

Product Key Features

Original Language
Japanese
Book Title
Kafka on the Shore
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Haruki Murakami
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-048907
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." New York Times, "As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition., "As powerful asThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion." The Chicago Tribune "An insistently metaphysical mind-bender." The New Yorker "If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present." New York Times
Dewey Decimal
895.6/35
Synopsis
WithKafka on the Shore,Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive asThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddleyet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. Extravagant in its accomplishment,Kafka on the Shoredisplays one of the world's truly great storytellers at the height of his powers., Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. High school & older.
LC Classification Number
PL856.U673U48 2005

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