本书是村上春树最新长篇小说，半年在东瀛热销80万册。背负命运诅咒的少年远走异乡，心在希望与绝望之间碰撞，世界在现实性与虚拟性之间游移……

主人公田村卡夫卡君不是随处可见的普通十五岁少年。他幼年时被母亲抛弃，又被父亲诅咒，他沉浸在深深的孤独中，辍学离家，一个人奔赴陌生的远方。无论怎么看——在日本也好，或许在中国也好——都很难说是平均线上十五岁的少年形象，但他却决心成为“世界上最顽强的十五岁少年”。

本书为英文版。

Kafka on the Shore 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.

As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.