Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami

  • Release Date: 2005-01-18
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 674 Ratings)
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Description

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.

Now with a new introduction by the author.

Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

Reviews

  • Good

    4
    By 濱畑は
    I enjoyed the twists and turns this story led me through. If you have read any of Haruki Murakami’s books you’ll not be surprised with where the story goes. I enjoyed reading it but I do feel like there is a lot of holes in the story and also the way he writes women is not nice to say the least.

  • Stunning.

    5
    By Baui F.
    This is the fourth book I’ve read by Haruki Murakami. One of the few authors I can somewhat digest and understand. I’m no literary genius but I can say this book is perfect, the surrealism and randomness is perfectly staged as you walk across the pages. The two paths made by two parties as they follow their own paths of fate is written just perfectly. Haruki Murakami can always deliver something beautiful.

  • It’s perfect

    5
    By Targantuan
    Absolutely brilliant. I want everyone I know who’s is smart or spiritual in any sense to read it.

  • Absolutely riveting

    5
    By luke.salgado
    The slow but steady increase in character development is truly captivating and filled with gasconade. Every page gives the feeling of being in his world and story. So much so that I feel every emotion to the bone.

  • Loved it

    5
    By rebeccaejohnson
     This is one of the books that turned me into an avid reader.

  • Bizarre, unique, and absolutely incredible

    5
    By fun app 03
    I’m not a big fan of introspective reading— I like psychological works, but a lot of stuff gets too pretentious for me. While I do have my gripes with this book (namely the writing of women, which I think become obvious for most people after they’ve read it), this was a really incredible experience to read and it changed my perspective.

  • Kafka Kafka Kafka

    4
    By ishtathuku
    Wonderful book which takes you on a wonderful journey

  • My favorite book now

    5
    By Othon Gerardo
    This book was so deep and hard to understand which is why I loved it so much. The book truly expressed itself in such an abstract metaphor.

  • On the fence but I’m here for it.

    4
    By toyrobroy
    I mean you know where is gonna go but you stilll go to be proven wrong but your not mad it went exactly where it was gonna go. Chill read some slow parts but worth it like a Sunday afternoon

  • Boring and silly

    2
    By Puss Bompansero
    I managed to force myself to get halfway through this book until finally admitting defeat. Just incredibly boring

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