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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicleand one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-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.
“As powerful asThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... isa strikingexperience in consciousness expansion.”—The Chicago Tribune
