Kafka On The Shore Av Haruki Murakami

<p><b>Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy.</b><br><br>The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.<br><br>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.<br><br>*<b>Murakami''s new book <i>Novelist as a Vocation</i> is available now</b>*<br><br><b>''Wonderful... Magical and outlandish'' </b><b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>''Hypnotic, spellbinding'' <i>The Times</i><br><br>''Cool, fluent and addictive'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>