This is an interesting book of unusual twists and
turns and a mystical quality to it. Not everything is explained thoroughly in
complete detail and it is left up to the reader to bring something to the story
and to fill in the unwritten gaps with their own interpretation (I think this
would bring an unique experience to each reader). In what was a deliberate move
I am sure some parts of the story are disturbing, some moving and others just
plain bonkers, but in all it is quite a satisfying and rewarding read.
‘Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his
father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a
bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly
turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish
tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the
night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There
is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.’
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