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Kafka on the Shore

Name: Kafka on the Shore
Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9781400079278

Haruki Murakami · 2006 · 480 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.

Now with a new introduction by the author.

Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune

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“@WiktoriaRakszew Favorite book is Kafka on the Shore. Worst movie I watched was Pacific Rim.”↗
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“"It’s a masterpiece. I sometimes steer people to Kafka on the Shore because it’s a much shorter book. But 1Q84 gets my complete endorsement."”↗
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“My amazing "Kafka on the shore" tattoo by talented @leogkanako .If you didn't read this book by #Murakami just do it now.”↗
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