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Jan 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 is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
1425 quotes from Kafka on the Shore: ‘Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.’
26 quotes from Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore: 'Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.', 'Listen up - there’s no war that will end all wars,”Crow tells me.
Editions for Kafka on the Shore: (Paperback published in 2006), 9953682836 (Hardcover published in 2007), (Kindle Edition published in 2005), 8483103567 ...
2081 quotes from Franz Kafka: 'Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.', 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.', and 'I am a cage, in search of a bird.'
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Kafka on the shore can't be fully understood because the author draws from many metaphysical sources. That plane of thinking is never clearly defined. But, to get a better understanding of Kafka on The Shore you have to read two of his other books, Hard Boiled Wonderland, and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
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Jun 30, 2013 · Clearly Murakami is hinting at themes from his earlier work to perhaps provide clues to unlocking Kafka on the Shore. Whereas Kafka on the Shore is a very ambiguous novel, Hard-Boiled actually provides a lot of explanations, especially regarding the mechanism of a split consciousness, retreating into the inner-mind, etc.
