{"product_id":"kafka-on-the-shore-9781400079278","title":"Kafka on the Shore","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and one of the world's greatest storytellers comes \"an insistently metaphysical mind-bender\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow with a new introduction by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here we meet 15-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As powerful as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eexperience in consciousness expansion.\" \u003ci\u003e--The Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569017295122,"sku":"9781400079278","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff86b1d9-12c1-4a1b-9bf2-7c2f339aa6af.jpg?v=1731953835","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kafka-on-the-shore-9781400079278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}