{"product_id":"9781400079278","title":"Kafka on the Shore","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the acclaimed 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 a deceptively simple old man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow with a new introduction by the author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere we meet fifteen-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-Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371036053565,"sku":"9781400079278","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781400079278_p0.jpg?v=1771575258","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781400079278","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}