Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from The New York Times and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006.

2002年1月1日 · 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 ...

2006年1月3日 · 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. …

Kafka on the Shore is a novel by Haruki Murakami that tells the story of Kafka Tamura, a young boy who runs away from home on his fifteenth birthday to escape his father’s prophecy. The novel is divided into two parallel plot lines that eventually converge into a single storyline.

2023年2月7日 · Explained and analysis of “Kafka on the Shore” “Kafka on the Shore,” a novel by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami, is a complex and surreal work that intertwines multiple narrative threads and explores a wide range of themes.

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Kafka on the Shore is one of several recent works by Murakami to address collective trauma in Japanese history. References to the lingering memory of World War II and the subsequent American occupation serve as one of the novel’s important recurring motifs.

2005年10月1日 · Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.

2005年1月1日 · Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

2005年1月1日 · Kafka on the Shore is Murakami’s best novel yet, outshining The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland[...] by combining an intriguing, page-turning storyline with absurdly profound metaphysical and postmodern philosophy.