Kafka on the Shore - SIGNED

Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel (James Philip Gabriel)

ISBN 10: 1843432684 / ISBN 13: 9781843432685

Edité par The Harvill Press, London, 2005

Limited first edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 505, [1]. Cream cloth, lettered in black to spine; decorated endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, winner of the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for this effort. Originally published as Umibe no Kafuka in 2002, in a two-volume set by Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo. #242/1000 copies signed in English by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Author's tenth novel. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize as well as a 2006 World Fantasy Award. Named as one of the Best Five Fiction Books of the Year in 2005 by the New York Times. Incorporating musical motifs, metaphysics, and the subconscious, an exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos in which a teenage boy's flight from his Oedipal curse crosses paths with an ageing simpleton bearing a wartime affliction. According to Murakami, the secret to understanding this complex novel lies in reading it several times: "Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape." "[A] real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -John Updike, The New Yorker. 1018. N° de réf. du vendeur Y98 R2Y

Synopsis :

"A stunning work of art that bears no comparisons" the New York Observer wrote of Haruki Murakami's masterpiece, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. In its playful stretching of the limits of the real world, his magnificent new novel, Kafka on the Shore is every bit as bewitching and ambitious. The narrative follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka 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 highly simplified life suddenly overturned. Their parallel odysseys - as mysterious to them as they are to the reader - are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Fish tumble in storms from the sky; cats carry on conversations with people; a ghostlike if familiar pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a brutal murder, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Yet this, as all else, is eventually resolved, even as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually unravelled. Murakami's new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.

À propos de l?auteur: Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. His works include A Wild Sheep Chase; The Elephant Vanishes; Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Norwegian Wood; Dance Dance Dance; South of the Border, West of the Sun; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart; and Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche; after the quake and Birthday Stories.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Kafka on the Shore - SIGNED
Éditeur : The Harvill Press, London
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Hardback
Etat : As new
Etat de la jaquette : No jacket
Signé : signed
Edition : Limited first edition in English.