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Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton.

Here we meet 15-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 striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

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