• ASIN : 0099458322

• Publisher : RHUK; Latest edition (6 October 2005)

• Language : English

• Paperback : 512 pages

• ISBN-10 : 9780099458326

• ISBN-13 : 978-0099458326

• Item Weight : 352 g

• Dimensions : 19.56 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm

• Condition : New

• Country of Origin : United Kingdom

• Generic Name : Book

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.

As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.

'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail

'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times

'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph