Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters.
Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order. .
Murakami\'s new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love.
There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.
Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII.
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
