Haruki Murakami

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Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore follows Kafka Tamura, a teenage boy fleeing home to escape a prophecy or find his family, and Nakata, an aging simpleton drawn to Kafka for mysterious reasons. As their paths converge, Haruki Murakami creates a surreal world where cats talk and spirits engage in strange acts, highlighting his storytelling brilliance.

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 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune