KAFKA ON THE SHORE by HARUKI MURAKAMI LINCHPIN by SETH GODDIN the country's huge social and

the country's huge social and economic disparities

Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism

The people hate their rulers

Aza is trying

The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life

KAFKA ON THE SHORE by HARUKI MURAKAMI LINCHPIN by SETH GODDIN the country's huge social andFORMAT: PAPERBACK Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his fathers dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost like pimp deploys a Hegel spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers