Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/10/2019
ISBN: 9781784875411
Length: 624 Pages
Dimensions: 190mm x 135mm x 135mm
Weight: 532g
RRP: £10.99
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.
His wife is growing more distant every day.
Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.
As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out. He embarks on a bizarre journey, guided by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The Times
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS series - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/10/2019
ISBN: 9781784875411
Length: 624 Pages
Dimensions: 190mm x 135mm x 135mm
Weight: 532g
RRP: £10.99
Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Visionary...a bold and generous book
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
Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original