基本信息·出版社：Oversea Publishing House ·页码：489 页 ·出版日期：2005年01月 ·ISBN：0307275264 ·条形码：9780307275264 ·版本：第1版 ·装帧 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Oversea Publishing House
·页码：489 页
·出版日期：2005年01月
·ISBN：0307275264
·条形码：9780307275264
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：村上春树: 海边的卡夫卡
内容简介 《村上春树:海边的卡夫卡》为英文版：The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen——it's page thirteen in Kafka On The Shore——the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply.
Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world1s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days——continuing his impressive self-education——and is befriended by a transgendered clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.
作者简介 Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.
编辑推荐 《村上春树:海边的卡夫卡》是Oversea Publishing House出版的。
"An insistently metphysical mind-bender."——THE NEW YORKER
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, Harnki 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 displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.
文摘 "My cell phone number," she says with a wry expression."I'm staying at my friend's place for a while, but if you ever feellike seeing somebody, give me a call. We ean go out for a bite orwhatever. Don't be a stranger, okay？ 'Even chance meetings'...how does the rest of that go？"
"'Are the result of karma.'"
"Right, right," she says. "But what does it mean？"
"That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That evenin the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence."
She sits there on her yellow suitcase, notebook in hand, giv-ing it some thought. "Hmm... that's a kind of philosophy, isn'tit. Not such a bad way of thinking about life. Sort of a reincarna-tion, New Age kind of thing. But, Kafka, remember this, okay？ Idon't go around giving my cell phone number to just anybody.You know what I mean？"
I appreciate it, I tell her. I fold up the piece of paper andstick it in the pocket of mywindbreaker. Thinking better of it,Itransfer it to my wallet.
"So how long'll you be in Takamatsu？" Sakura asks.
"I don't know yet; I say. "It depends on how things go."
She gazes intently at me, her head tilted slightly to one side.Okay, whatever, she might be thinking. She climbs into a cab,gives a little wave, and takes off.
Once again I'm all alone. Sakura, I think——not my sister'sname. But names are changed easily enough. Especially, whenyou're txying to try to run away from somebody.
I have a reservation at a business hotel in Takamatsu. TheYMCA in Tokyo had told me about the place, and through themI got a discount on the room. But that's only for the first threedays, then it goes back to the normal room rate.
If I really wanted to save money,I could just sack out on abench in front of the station, or since it's still warm out, I couldsleep in my sleeping hag in a park somewhere. But then the copswill come and card me——the one thing I have to avoid at allcosts. That's why I went for the hotel reservation, at least forthree d
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