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Kafka on the Shore

32 Ratings: 3.4

a novel by Haruki Murakami

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing … see full wiki

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Author: Haruki Murakami

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: January 3, 2006

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review by deflowered. June 12, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Honestly, I risk a grave error in reviewing this.

I'll state why: Haruki Murakami is not your conventional author. He's not your conventional anything, as a matter of fact. Actually his novels are playgrounds rather than novels, his characters morphing every minute as they deal with the incongruities of the unchanging swings, monkey bars, slides, and odd tic-tac-toe blocks that I myself never made any use of. They become cramped, find brief repose as the wind rides through their hair as they swing like a pendulum, … more

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review by Meliss. July 09, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Suspend your Expectations.

If you are willing to suspend your want of reasons, solutions, character growth or resolution, "Kafka" is for you. Another review spoke of Murakami as a creator of playgrounds rather than a writer of novels; this is completely true. "Kafka on the Shore" follows the perspective of two characters. First is "Kafka," a 15-year-old runaway who is both encouraged and questioned by the boy, Crow, who exists only in his mind. The … more

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review by connorg03. August 06, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Surprise

I found Haruki Kurami’s writing style to be somewhat bland and typical, nothing special like I was hoping for. I did like his narrative style; he had multiple stories running along side one another. It left me trying to find connections between the story lines, which Kurami gave subtle hints at, foreshadowing events to come, fates to meet. All the story lines very nearly converged into one, but still kept their separate point of view. Kurami’s plot … more

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