Kafka on the Shore
Ratings417
Average rating3.9
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Ratings417
Average rating3.9
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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.
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This is the first Murakami book I read, so it will always be my favourite (having now consumed most of his other books as a result)
I haven't read them all, but this is my favorite Murakami novel so far. Librarians! Cats! Oshima is, right now, my favorite Murakami character.
Sad story. Really pulls at the heartstrings on a level. Enjoyed it. A bit of slipping between alternate dimensions going on (like in 1Q84).
