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Kafka on the shore

Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother, drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata.

Main Author: Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Other Authors: Gabriel, J. Philip.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Japanese
Published: New York : Vintage International, 2006, c2005.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Subjects:
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother, drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata.
Item Description: Translation of: Umibe no Kafuka.
Physical Description: 467 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781400079278 (pbk.)
1400079276 (pbk.)
9780329924317 (Follett bdg.)
0329924311
Author Notes: Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and studied at Tokyo's Waseda University. He opened a coffeehouse/jazz bar in the capital called Peter Cat with his wife. He became a full-time author following the publication of his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979.

He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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