The Tale of Kaho

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The new novel from the beloved and internationally bestselling author of The City and Its Uncertain Walls: the story of a children’s book illustrator and her unforgettable Kafkaesque quest.

One evening in Tokyo, a woman named Kaho goes on a date that sets off a strange series of events. After an unsettling dream that forces her to question her safety, Kaho moves to a new neighborhood and discovers a pair of talking anteaters living under her floorboards. They are urgently in need of help, they tell her, for an alarming task; in return, they will offer their protection. Kaho agrees to these mysterious terms and is plunged into a dark world where her loved ones become unrecognizable. As she sketches a new book about a girl struggling with abandonment, Kaho must also face the issue at the heart of her troubles: her relationship with her own mother.

The Tale of Kaho is a tour de force of imagination and intrigue, whimsy and philosophy. A fable, a journey, and a wholly propulsive story, it is the work of a writer like no other.

About Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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