Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami

480 pages | Vintage Books | Paperback | 1.3.06

Haruki Murakami's most important novel since The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (and his most successful to date) is an extravagant and utterly bewitching coming of age story populated by a cast of strange and unforgettable characters (with two and four legs).

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.