About the Book: Kafka on the Shore
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