01107    a2200181   4500008004100000020001800041080001800059100002200077245002300099260003200122300001100154520063800165650003500803650001400838650002300852650002400875700002600899250205b        ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d  a9780099458326  a821.221 MUR/K  a Murakami, Haruki  aKafka on the shore  aDublin: bVintage, c2005.   a505p.   aKafka 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.
  aRunaway teenagers -- Fiction;   aFiction;   aJapan -- Fiction;   aJapanese Literature  aGabriel, Philipetr.