Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters.
Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys.
Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father\'s dark prophesy.
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters