Kafka on the Shore
2001 • 468 pages

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Kafka runs away from the curse his father put on him: that he will kill his father, and sleep with his mother and sister. Escaping Tokyo he ends up living in a private library, where he finds a strange mother-connection with the library's owner, whom he falls in love with. Somewhere between dream and reality he fulfils his fathers curse. Nakata is an old man, who lost part of himself due to an strange accident in his childhood. He is on a journey to open the entrance, where the characters will find their lost halves.

January 10, 2007