Kafka on the Shore.

MURAKAMI, Haruki. Translated by Philip Gabriel.

ISBN 10: 1400043662 / ISBN 13: 9781400043668

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf,, New York, 2005

Beschreibung

First U.S. edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered spine, ivory paper-covered boards. 436 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006. Number 78 on The New York Times Reader's list of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century. .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18772

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Kafka on the Shore.
• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf,, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1400043662
• ISBN-13: 9781400043668
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1. Druck
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Gewicht: 3 Pfund
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literature
  • Japan
  • Alternative History

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four 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.