Kafka on the Shore (Unabridged)
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4.1 • 91 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed 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 a deceptively simple old man.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet fifteen-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.”—Chicago Tribune
Customer Reviews
Excellent.
I think it’s the best introductory book into Murkakami’s style of writing. Great story telling. Mind bending. Engaging in every aspect for every age and gender. Murakami at his finest.
Not a fun read
Disjointed and full of weird stuff that serves no purpose but to be weird. Plot lines that go nowhere. Gratuitous sex and violence.
One of my favorites
Nobody reads reviews, we simply judge a book based on its 5-star rating.
In case you do read this, this book is indeed a coming of age story. It’s also a story about finding oneself. It’s definitely a historical commentary, while at the same time allegorical. Its one of my favorite philosophical novels!