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Kafka on the Shore "-Washington Post Book World "Edmundson'sNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world's greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind bender" (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen year old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge,