Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099562986
Length: 624 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 652g
RRP: £7.99
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague, blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099562986
Length: 624 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 652g
RRP: £7.99
"Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journeys of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work"
"Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty"
"Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original"
"Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down"
"How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration"