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Title:
Kafka on the Shore
Series:
海辺のカフカ
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1st
Narrative:
Alternating Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
467
Number of Chapters:
49
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:33:15
Synopsis:
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 is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
Author:
Murakami
Philip
Haruki; Gabriel
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Publisher:
Vintage International
Barcode:
9781400079278
Country:
United States
Place of Printing:
New York
Publication Date:
2006-01-03
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Publisher Location:
New York
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$7.00
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-04-04
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:33:15
