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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami | Goodreads

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   Sep 1, 2002 · Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, 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 ...

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   Jan 24, 2005 · BOOK REVIEW. by Mark Z. Danielewski. Two mysterious quests form the core of Murakami’s absorbing seventh novel, whose encyclopedic breadth recalls his earlier successes, A Wild Sheep Chase (1989) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997).

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   Book Summary. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, and an aging simpleton.

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   The novel was generally well-received, with positive reviews from John Updike and The New York Times . Title. The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse of NPR, is suggestive and mysterious to Japanese readers — Franz Kafka is categorized as a Western writer who is well-known by Americans and British people, but is not so in Japan.

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   Jan 8, 2022 · Book Reviews. Kafka on the shore – Murakami’s puzzling world of poetic imagination. Ronak Shetty October 24, 2021. If I had to choose one word to describe Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’, it would probably be ‘bizarre’. But a good kind of bizarre. Great even.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2015/07/25 › theaterReview: ‘Kafka on the Shore,’ a Metaphysical Odyssey Adapted ...

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   Jul 24, 2015 · A sudden craving for Kentucky Fried Chicken swept over me at one point during the stage adaptation of the Haruki Murakami novel “Kafka on the Shore,” being presented through Sunday at the ...

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   Is Kafka on the shore a good book?

   • Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. I thought this was a marvelous novel, although I'm not sure that I entirely understood it. The upside is that I'm not the only one, it seems that even Murakami had trouble understanding it!

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   Who wrote Kafka on the shore?

   • Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from The New York Times and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006.

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   Is Kafka Tamura a good book?

   • Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from The New York Times and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006. The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Oedipal curse, and Satoru Nakata, an old, disabled man with the uncanny ability to talk to cats.

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   Is Franz Kafka a Western writer?

   • The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse of NPR, is suggestive and mysterious to Japanese readers — Franz Kafka is categorized as a Western writer who is well-known by Americans but is not so in Japan. He compares it to titles such as Genji on the Hudson.

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9. bookart101.com › kafka-on-the-shore-book-review'Kafka on the shore' Book Review: Travel beyond realism with ...

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   Jun 15, 2020 · One of the best ways to understand magical realism is to experience it with this review of 'Kafka on the shore' by Haruki Murakami.