COMMENTS

  1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - Goodreads

    Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, 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 ...

  2. KAFKA ON THE SHORE - Kirkus Reviews

    BOOK REVIEW. HOME AND EXILE. by Chinua Achebe. Two mysterious quests form the core of Murakami’s absorbing seventh novel, whose encyclopedic breadth recalls his earlier successes, A Wild Sheep Chase (1989) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997).

  3. 'Kafka on the Shore': Reality's Cul-de-Sacs - The New York Times

    KAFKA ON THE SHORE By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Philip Gabriel. 436 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95. It is easier to be bewitched by Haruki Murakami's fiction than to figure out...

  4. Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami: Summary and Reviews

    Kafka on the Shore is Murakami’s best novel yet, outshining The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland[...] by combining an intriguing, page-turning storyline with absurdly profound metaphysical and postmodern philosophy.

  5. Kafka on the Shore - Wikipedia

    Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from The New York Times and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006.

  6. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - Goodreads

    Kafka on the Shore. Haruki Murakami. 4.29. 14 ratings1 review. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's 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.