Kafka am Strand

Gift edition in small format, printed cloth with ribbon. 15-year-old Kafka Tamura leaves home and flees to the island of Shikoku to escape from a gloomy prophecy of his father. His adventurous journey takes him to a foreign city, where he meets the fascinating library manager Saeki and falls for her. He makes the acquaintance of a mysterious old man who can talk to cats and slips into a strange, strange world. What is dream, what is reality? Where does this journey full of mysterious encounters and labyrinthine paths end?