- ASIN : 0099458322
- Publisher : RHUK; Latest edition (6 October 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780099458326
- ISBN-13 : 978-0099458326
- Item Weight : 352 g
- Dimensions : 19.56 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
- Condition : New
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 ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged 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.
Wonderful... Magical and outlandish Daily Mail
Hypnotic, spellbinding The Times
Cool, fluent and addictive Daily Telegraph
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.