![]() ![]() Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. "Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. This is what a boy named Crow says to Kafka Tamura, who aspires to be "the world's toughest fifteen-year-old." It may as well have been a warning from Murakami to the reader: Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order. Murakami's new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. ![]() Cats converse with people fish tumble from the sky a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. ![]() Kafka Tamura runs away from home at 15, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Originally published (in Japanese) in 2002. ![]()
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