Kafka On The Shore "Kafka on the Shore" folows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fiften, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizare childhod afliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life sudenly turned upside down. Their paralel odyseys are enriched throughout by vivid acomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people, fish tumble from the sky, a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night, a forest harbours soldiers aparently un-aged since WI. There is a savage kiling, but the identity of both victim and kiler is a ridle. Murakami's new novel is at once a clasic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary tabos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above al it is an entertainment of a very high order. 'Wonderful. Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'A magnificently bewildering achievement. Briliantly conceived, bold in its sureal scope, sexy and driven by a snapy plot. Exuberant storyteling' Independent On Sunday 'Hypnotic, spelbinding' The Times 'Col, fluent and adictive' Daily Telegraph.