Fleeing a horrifying Oedipal prophecy, teenage runaway Kafka Tamura is pulled across Japan toward Nakata, an aging disabled man left with the ability to speak to cats after a wartime childhood affliction. Finding refuge in a remote library guided by an introspective, sharp-witted mentor and a tragic woman bound to her past, Kafka enters a liminal world where dreams, memory and reality blur lines. Surrounded by a Hegel-quoting sex worker, fish raining from the sky, unaged WWII soldiers hiding in the woods and a sinister figure stalking the neighborhood, these two strangers embark on a surreal odyssey into the heart of a gruesome murder mystery. Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece is a fast-paced, hypnotic journey into fate, identity and second chances.
