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With kafka on the shore, haruki murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as the windup bird chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose stillgrowing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. Nakatas acceptance, and his frank manner of talking are totally endearing. Here we meet a teenage boy, kafka tamura, who is on the run, and nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. Murakamis latest, kafka on the shore, is no exception, although it is a departure for this japanese novelist in other ways. The book cover archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design. Aug 20, 2015 kafka on the shore is also full of frustrating inconsistencies. Kafka is running away from home to escape an oedipalesque prophecy that his father predicts of him.
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Most of his protagonists have been men in their 30s, easygoing. I dont know if thats intentional or not, but it leaves me unsatisfied. But at some point between page three and fifteenits page thirteen in kafka on the shorethe deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply. There is a very little number of books which are having the.
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