Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his fathers 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 ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegelspouting girl of the night a forest harbours soldiers apparently unaged 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.Hypnotic, spellbinding The TimesCool, fluent and addictive Daily TelegraphAddictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure Evening Standard

Binding: Paperback;400 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 472 g; Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 33

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