NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (
The New Yorker
) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet fifteen-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 as
.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking
experience in consciousness expansion.”
—Chicago Tribune