Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.<br /><br />The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.<br /><br />As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-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 elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.<br /><br />'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail<br /><br />'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times<br /><br />'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph