Kafka on the shore /
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 oedi...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2005.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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