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Murakami, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2021
Stock Code: 14292
First thus. Octavo, pp., vii 516. Beautifully illustrated by Daniel Liévano with both colour plates and in-text vignettes. Publisher’s deep blue cloth with titles in blue and red gilt to spine, with an image of a bird in blue gilt to upper board, and a blue gilt hand and pattern to lower board. Maroon dream sequence illustrated endpapers. Housed in a Prussian blue slipcase with one panel decorated with blue gilt arrayed from a cut out of an eye. A near fine copy. A few light marks and scuffs to the undecorated panel of slipcase. An attractive Folio Society edition of Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s tenth novel, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2006. A split narrative tale of a fifteen year old boy named Kafka Tamura who flees his home, and an older man named Nakata who can talk to cats, Murakami felt true understanding of the novel’s interlinking riddles came from several readings. £110.00