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008			060103s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2006271024
020			_a9780099458326 (pbk.)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
082	0	0	_a895.635 MUR
100	1		_aMurakami, Haruki
245	1	0	_aKafka on the shore / _cHaruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
260			_aNew York _bVintage International _c2006
300			_a505 p. _c20 cm.
500			_aGratis Rs.599/-
520			_aThis magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle-yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. _b"Originally published in Japan in two volumes as Umibe no Kafuka by Shinchosha, Tokya, in 2002." Originally published in Great Britain: Harvill Press, 2005.
700	1		_aGabriel, Philip
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