A beautifully packaged hardcover edition of Haruki Murakami's captivating surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the author.

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at the age of fifteen, in the shadow of his father's dark prophecy.

The aging Nakata, a seeker of lost cats who never recovered from a strange childhood illness, suddenly finds his pleasantly simplified life turned upside down.

As their parallel odysseys unfold, cats converse with humans, fish fall from the sky, a ghostly pimp sends a nightlife girl onto the streets with quotes from Hegel, and a forest conceals soldiers who apparently haven't aged since World War II. There is a brutal murder, yet the identity of both victim and perpetrator remains a mystery—one of many that together create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.

"Wonderful... Magical and quirky."

"Hypnotic, gripping."

"Cool, fluid, and addictive.".