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• World Fantasy Award for Novel (2006)
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2005)
• Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2006)
• PEN Translation Prize for Philip Gabriel (2006)
• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2005)
• Tähtifantasia Award (2010)
• Βραβείο Βιβλίου Public for Μεταφρασμένο μυθιστόρημα της χρονιάς (Translator: Αργυρώ Μαντόγλου) (2016)
• Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2009)

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore display one of the world's great story tellers at the peak of his powers.

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