Kafka On The Shore REP15 and How to Sew: Sashiko

and How to Sew: Sashiko introduces this wonderful Japanese decorative stitching technique

Her tone is approachable and honest

Marcel Breuer

In a series of succinct essays accompanying the images

Kafka On The Shore REP15 and How to Sew: SashikoKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophecy. The ageing 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 apparently un aged