Kafka on the Shore

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of <i>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</i> and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (<i>The New Yorker</i>) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.<br><br>Now with a new introduction by the author.</b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>“As powerful as <i>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</i>.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking<i> </i>experience in consciousness expansion.”<i>—Chicago Tribune</i></b>