The celebrated coming-of-age love story from Japan's most important author: timeless and placeless, steeped in fairy tales and myths, poised between dream and reality — and suffused with wisdom.
"When I turned fifteen, I left home and went to live in a corner of a small library in a distant, unfamiliar city." So begins Kafka Tamura's account, and his journey leads, in truth, out of the real world and deep into his own inner self. A fateful prophecy — echoing the story of Oedipus — guides Kafka ...
