Kafka on the Shore
2001 • 468 pages

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

Kafka 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.


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It means something I think. It was a great read and the pages flew by with each overturn of what we readers can think & accept in society through the pain & wonder via these lost souls of a cast, but I could not tell you what I picked up. 4/5 but I don't think I can recommend it to just anyone.

June 16, 2025

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I enjoyed it. But I'm pretty sure I don't understand it.

October 14, 2011

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