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020 $a9781400044818 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aMurakami, Haruki $q(Haruki Murakami).
245 10 $aKafka on the Shore$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$c2005.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aWith Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.This 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.Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's truly great storytellers at the height of his powers.From the Hardcover edition.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2005.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1837 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 489 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1837 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 489 KB).
653 #0 $aFiction
653 #0 $aLiterature
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z1400043662
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