The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from abizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified lifesuddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fishtumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl ofthe night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World WarII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim andkiller is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant anddreamlike masterpiece.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
