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Jan 1, 2002 · 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 ...
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1-84343-110-6. OCLC. 56805021. 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. The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15 ...
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- Haruki Murakami
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- Magical realism
Kafka has a dream about raping Sakura which fills him with guilt. Kafka is intensely lonely and feels trapped by his father’s prophecy. Hoping to escape, or face death, he ventures into the dark woods. Eventually, he comes upon two soldiers in World War II uniforms who say they will take Kafka to a mysterious entrance.
Jan 3, 2006 · Kafka on the Shore. Paperback – January 3, 2006. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton.
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Kafka on the Shore has also drawn much comparison to Murakami’s other long surrealist works, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Kafka on the Shore also draws heavily on the ancient Greek tragic myth of Oedipus, immortalized in dramatic form by Sophocles in his play, Oedipus Rex. In the myth, Oedipus receives a prophecy from the oracle at ...
Introduction. “Kafka on the Shore” is a mesmerizing novel by Haruki Murakami, a contemporary Japanese author renowned for his unique blend of magical realism, deep existential questions, and intricate plots. Published in 2002, this novel quickly became a global sensation, drawing readers into its enigmatic and surreal world.
About Kafka on the Shore. With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
