Great product!Product DescriptionKafka on the Shore 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 most basic activities of daily life?? he cannot fathom.
As their paths converge?? and the reasons for that convergence become clear?? Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in" where cats talk?? fish fall from the sky?? and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world??s great storytellers at the peak of his powers.Amazon.com ReviewThe 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 through clouds at a tilt?? no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply. Joining the rich literature of runaways?? Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary?? self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu?? reminding himself at each step that he has to be "d??s toughest fifteen-year-old."He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk a