{"product_id":"9781400079278","title":"Kafka on the Shore","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes \"an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“As powerful as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eexperience in consciousness expansion.” \u003ci\u003e—The Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Haruki Murakami","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2006-01-03","offer_id":44151405871359,"sku":"9781400079278","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dac7f44d-22ea-4127-9cb6-583f69ce7ed3.jpg?v=1700681163","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781400079278","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}