Summary
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother, drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata. Full description
Summary: |
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother, drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata. |
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Item Description: |
Translation of: Umibe no Kafuka. |
Physical Description: |
467 p. ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781400079278 (pbk.) 1400079276 (pbk.) 9780329924317 (Follett bdg.) 0329924311 |
Author Notes: |
He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux. (Bowker Author Biography) |