Kafka on the Shore
- Author Haruki Murakami
- Narrator Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 19 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Speculative fiction.
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What to expect
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Kafka 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 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.
'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail
'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
© Haruki Marakami 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Wonderful… Magical and outlandish
Daily Mail -
A magnificently bewildering achievement… Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot… Exuberant storytelling
Independent on Sunday -
Cool, fluent and addictive
Daily Telegraph -
Hypnotic, spellbinding
The Times -
Addictive… Exhilarating… A pleasure
Evening Standard
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