MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02974pam a22003374a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
14217818 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20240305133830.0 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2006271024 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400079278 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1400079276 (pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
jpn |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 #0 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PL856.U673 |
| Item number |
U4813 2005 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
895.6/35 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Murakami, Haruki, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1949- |
| 240 00 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Umibe no Kafuka |
| Language of a work |
English |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Kafka on the shore |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Vintage International ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, N.Y. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Vintage International |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2006, c2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
467 p. |
| Dimensions |
21 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle-yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Runaway teenagers |
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Japan |
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Detective and mystery stories |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gabriel, Philip, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1953- |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-b.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-b.html</a> |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-d.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-d.html</a> |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Sample text |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-s.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006271024-s.html</a> |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
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7 |
| b |
cbc |
| c |
origcop |
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2 |
| e |
ncip |
| f |
20 |
| g |
y-gencatlg |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |