Author: murakami, haruki (Keywords)

English title: "Killing Commendatore". Translation from Japanese.

Translation from Japanese. English title: "Killing Commendatore".

English title: "The strange Library". Translation from Japanese. Illustrations by Kat Menschik.

Okada is apparently a happy man - his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with explicit phone calls.

At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odyssey where he shall encounter some very strange characters indeed.