Kafka on the Shore [B2159]

2006 PB with minor wear. 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. 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 striking experience in consciousness expansion."-Chicago Tribune.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The book is outlandish, deep, and something that gets woven within you. It has so many quotable lines, and I feel that part of this book will be stuck with me forever. The book offers a variety of emotions and depicts some uncomfortable storylines too, but that's Haruki Murakami for you! Every character in the book offers different shades, and it is one book that will give you loads of insights about the conscious and unconscious, and finite yet infinite possibilities."; "Murakami challenged me with this book more than I expected. After finishing it, I now realize how different his writing really is. He challenges you, makes you think the unthinkable, and forces you to empathize with the characters. Some chapters left me speechless while reading. I think I'll read more of his books."; "Somehow it feels like nothing in this book made any sense or had any meaning at all, and yet it felt like every 10 pages I would read something and go, 'huh, this makes me think about life in a way than I ever have before.' "; "What a mind-bender. I'm not sure I fully understood it. and for that reason, I will be filing this book back into my TBR and giving it another go when I'm ready."