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Kafka on the shore / Haruki Murakami ; translated by Philip Gabriel.
Van Pelt Library PL856.U673 U48 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Standardized Title:
- Umibe no Kafuka. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 436 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York , N. Y. : Knopf, 2005.
- Summary:
- Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. What follows is a kind of double odyssey, as the two grope to understand the roles fate has in store for them.
- ISBN:
- 1400043662
- OCLC:
- 56095515
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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