书名：Kafka On The Shore海边的卡夫卡

作者：Haruki Murakami村上春树

出版社名称：Vintage

出版时间：2005

语种：英语

ISBN：9780099458326

商品尺寸：19.6 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm

包装：平装

页数：505（以实物为准）

《岸上的卡夫卡》讲述了两位杰出人物的命运。田村卡夫卡十五岁时，在父亲黑暗预言的阴影下离家出走。年迈的中田，一个追踪走失猫的人，从未从离奇的童年痛苦中恢复过来，发现自己原本舒适简单的生活突然发生了天翻地覆的变化。栩栩如生的同谋和令人着迷的戏剧丰富了他们平行的旅程。猫与人交谈;鱼从天上滚下来;一个幽灵般的皮条客布置了一个夜间喷着黑格尔的女孩;一片森林里藏匿着二战后未衰老的士兵。这是一起野蛮的谋杀，但受害者和凶手的身份都是一个谜。村上春树的小说既是一部经典之作，同时也是对神话和当代禁忌、弑父、母爱和姐妹之爱的大胆探索。重要的是，这是一场非常高ji的娱乐活动。

Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami's novel is at once a classic quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.

1978年，29岁的村上春树(Haruki Murakami)在东京市中心经营一家爵士酒吧。四月的一天，他在看棒球比赛时，突然产生了写小说的冲动。他的di一部小说《听风吟》获得了一个新作家奖，并于次年出版。之后还有更多作品，包括《追羊记》、《残酷仙境》和《世界末日》，但只有1987年出版的《挪威的森林》，才让村上春树从一个作家变成了一个奇才。他的书成为畅销书，被翻译成多种语言，包括英语，村上独特而令人上瘾的虚构世界的大门也敞开了。

村上以令人钦佩的自律写作，每天写10页，之后他跑10公里(他从1982年开始长跑，参加了许多马拉松和赛跑)，从事翻译工作，然后阅读、听唱片和烹饪。他的激情为他的非小说作品增添了色彩，从我所说的奔跑到jue对的音乐，它们也渗透到他的小说和短篇故事中，在他无拘无束的想象探索中提供日常的时刻。在《奇鸟行状记》、《1Q84》和《没有女人的男人》等作品中，村上春树独特地将神秘与日常生活、忧郁与幽默融为一体，令读者为之着迷，也确保了村上春树作为世界上zui受欢迎和喜爱的作家之一的地位。

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.