Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As 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

A masterwork of comedy' New York Times

which follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved

and of living as a person among others

David Dickson's magisterial survey brings Dublin to life from it's medieval incarnation to it's eighteenth-century reputation as the 'Naples of the North'

Frances is twenty-one years old

Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought

'The book that forever changed the way American literature would be written' Erica Jong

Always interested in plants and animals

The runaway bestseller

Courageous

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