Kafka on the Shore

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American Edition, stated. Octavo (24cm); illustrated dust jacket with $25.95 price intact; beige boards and blue spine with gilt lettering; [vi],436pp. Jacket lightly edgeworn with no chips, tears, or marks. Very slight twist to boards, with nudging at spine ends. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

Murakami's widely lauded tenth novel, following Kafka Tamura and Nakata on a mysterious odyssey as they encounter a conversational cat and a Hegel-quoting sex worker on their journey, peppered throughout with, of course, musings on music, dreams, and fate.