TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Gabriel,Philip TI - Kafka on the shore SN - 1400043662 AV - PL856.U673 U48 2005 U1 - 895.6/35 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House KW - Runaway teenagers KW - Japan KW - Fiction KW - Parent and child N2 - Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. What follows is a kind of double odyssey, as the two grope to understand the roles fate has in store for them ER -