<b>A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's</b> <b>mesmerizingly surreal classic</b><b>, now with a new introduction by the author</b><br> <br> Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.<br> <br> The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <b>'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish'</b> <b><i>Daily Mail<br></i></b><b><br> 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' <i>The Times</i><br> <br> 'Cool, fluent and addictive' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b>
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i spread my hands out in front of me and take a good hard look at them. what am i always so tense about? why this desperate struggle just to survive? i shake my head, turn from the window, clear my mind of thoughts of a hundred years away. i’ll just think about now. about books waiting to be read in the library, machines in the gym i haven’t worked out on. thinking about anything else isn’t going to get me anywhere.
