02891nam a2200385Ia 4500 20260803094229.0 251212s2005 xx 000 0 und dÃÃÃ Kafka on the shore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Murakami, Haruki 1949-|eauthor Gabriel, Philip,|d1953-|etranslator. New York : Vintage Books, Ã2005. 1st Vintage International edition. 467 pages: 20 cm 9781400079278 Runaway teenagers Japan Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Japan Fiction. FIC 895.635 M98k 2006 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 SH0456 eng|hjpn SHS Library Publisher description|uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-d.html With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The 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 riddle-yet 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 Shore displays one of the world`s truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. 0 text txt|2rdacontent. unmediated n|2rdamedia. volume nc|2rdacarrier. lcc BK jderpo 2020-02-19 14:54:01 jderpo 2020-02-19 14:56:16 11453 11352 11352 0 0 ddc 0 0 BED BED BED 2025-12-21 FIC 895.635 M98k 2006 SH0456 2026-06-18 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK