Kafka on the Shore

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.. Now with a new introduction by the author.. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk fish fall from the sky and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder in what is a truly remarkable journey.. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a strikingexperience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune