By Haruki Murakami
Kafka at the Shore is powered by way of striking characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs clear of domestic both to flee a grotesque oedipal prophecy or to look for his long-missing mom and sister; and an getting older simpleton known as Nakata, who by no means recovered from a wartime illness and now's drawn towards Kafka for purposes that, just like the most simple actions of lifestyle, he can't fathom.
As their paths converge, and the explanations for that convergence turn into transparent, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a global the place cats speak, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out in their our bodies to make love or dedicate homicide. Kafka at the Shore monitors one of many world’s nice storytellers on the height of his powers.
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