Kafka on the Shore

✍ Murakami, Haruki 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🌐 English ⚖ 302 KB

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 bas

Kafka on the Shore

✍ Haruki Murakami 📂 Fiction 📅 2005,2006 🏛 Vintage International;Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed 🌐 English ⚖ 286 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: 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 re

Kafka on the Shore

✍ Haruki Murakami; J. Philip Gabriel 📂 Fiction 📅 2005;2011 🏛 Alfred A. Knopf;Vintage Digital 🌐 English ⚖ 312 KB 👁 3 views

### Amazon.com Review The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in *Kafka On The Shore*--the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking throug

Kafka on the Shore

✍ Murakami, Haruki 📂 Fiction 📅 2005;2011 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Digital 🌐 English ⚖ 349 KB 👁 2 views

Kafka On the Shore

✍ Haruki Murakami 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House;Vintage Digital 🌐 English ⚖ 535 KB 👁 2 views

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. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats

Kafka on the Shore

✍ Haruki Murakami 📂 Fiction 📅 2005;2011 🏛 Alfred A. Knopf;Vintage Digital 🌐 English ⚖ 312 KB 👁 2 views

### Amazon.com Review The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in *Kafka On The Shore*--the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking throug

Kafka on the Shore

✦ Synopsis