Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
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Kafka on the Shore

Author: Haruki Murakami

Narrator: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur

Unabridged: 19 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2013

Synopsis

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

About The Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Bunny on 2008-06-23 10:30:59

I have to read everything he's ever written now. The first three--this one being the third--have kept me mesmerized throughout. Even though there is darkness and imperfection in all of the characters and events, the dreamlike quality is compelling. Prose which reads like poetry. One of the best books I've ever read--except for Toni Morrison, of course!

Goodreads review by Jr on September 06, 2015

Kafka on the Shore is a metaphor. It follows no rules, it doesn’t adhere to reason, and applicability is not an issue. It fills you up, it tears you down. A fugue of emotions are present, you can’t seem to figure out which of the many different realizations flooding you is most important. Waves roll......more

Goodreads review by zuza_zaksiazkowane on February 11, 2022

1.5. Ta książka była odpychająca, niesmaczna, dziwna do potęgi i utwierdziła mnie w przekonaniu, że nie chcę mieć dzieci 🥲 Ale równocześnie jest w pewnym względzie monumentalna. Tylko panie autorze, co pan spożywał jak pan to wymyślał......more

Quotes

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

“An insistently metaphysical mind-bender.”
—The New Yorker

“If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present.”
—The New York Times

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