Abou The Book:
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophecy. The ageing Nakata, tracker of loast cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affiction, finds this pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people, fish tumple from the sky; a ghost like pimp deploys a Hegal- 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.... one of many which combine to create an elegent and dreamlike masterpiece.