Book Condition: As New Jacket Condition: As New Type: Hardcover Edition: First Edition In U. S. Publisher: N. Y. Alfred a Knopf Inc 2005 ISBN Number:1400043662 / 9781400043668 Illustrator: Translator: J.Philip Gabriel Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 3041
Fine, new, clean, crisp and unread stated first printing, SIGNED boldly by Murakami in Japanese calligraphy to the title page. Fresh ivory boards with sharp tips, the blue spine stamped in gilt titles, very slight push to spine-foot, else fine in the striking pictorial dust jacket protected in a new, clear Brodart cover. Murakami's extraordinary ideas and unique prose dazzle in this surreal novel which follows the stories of a "slow" old man who can make fishes fall from the sky, and a young man both trying to flee his fate and embark on a quest. Master storyteller Murakami is, as always, a fearless writer, and this extraordinary novel just proves his imaginative genius.