{"product_id":"kafka-on-the-shore","title":"Kafka on the Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Murakami, Haruki \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/10\/2005,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 512 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099458326,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now*'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105008549932,"sku":"9780099458326","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099458326.jpg?v=1713022376","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/kafka-on-the-shore","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}