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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2005
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Book details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2005
- Format
- Electronic resource
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9781400044818
- Categories
- Fiction
About this book
A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk to cats, a mysterious librarian, and a woman waiting for a long-dead lover.
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