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Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099448792
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
Edition: New edition
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Blackwell's Staff Review
Quite simply a novel about a man who loves ironing and who one day loses his cat.
But, you guessed it, it's about so much more. Intriguing.
Zool, Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has been receiving. In this title, as the story unfolds, the suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer are truned inside out.
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
| ISBN | 0099448793 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780099448792
(What's this?) | | Pages | 624 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 505 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9781860465819 | | Publication date | 22 Apr 1999 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Non-book description | Re-numbered item (originally 1860465811) | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Translator | Jay Rubin | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY | 895.635 | | Academic level | General |
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'Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work', Independent .'Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty', Independent on Sunday .'Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original', New York Times .'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down', Daily Telegraph .'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration', Independent on Sunday There are so many strands to this book that you really need to read it several times to appreciate Murakami at his best, which means you will experience something new each time you read it. Humour, surrealism, history and philosophy abound in this masterpiece! - Susan Bayliss Write a review
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