A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly surreal classic,now with a new introduction by the authorKafka 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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877989Number of pages: 528Weight: 623 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 45 mm
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Wonderful... Magical and outlandishA magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived,bold in its surreal scope,sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytellingCool,fluent and addictiveHypnotic,spellbindingAddictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure
Haruki Murakami
Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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