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by: Haruki Murakami  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 895.635 EAN: 9781400079278 ISBN: 1400079276 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: January 03, 2006 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: January 03, 2006 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in Kafka On The Shore--the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply. Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters. To say that the fantastic elements of Kafka On The Shore are complicated and never fully resolved is not to suggest that the novel fails. Although it may not live up to Murakami's masterful The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Nakata and Kafka's fates keep the reader enthralled to the final pages, and few will complain about the loose threads at the end. --Regina Marler Product Description: Kafka on the Shore 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 is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, 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. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Nobody I Know Likes This BookI'm surprised to see this book get high scores here, it's quite bad even by Murakami Haruki's relatively low standards ("Norwegian Wood" and "A Wild Sheep's Chase" and "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" are good, the rest are enjoyable as contentless vehicles of style only). Everyone I know who's read "Kafka on the Shore" thought it was pointless rubbish. Murakami Haruki seems to be very famous in the US, and he publishes rubbish short stories like "A Shinagawa Monkey" ... Read More Rating:  - hypnoticKafka on the Shore is a dream voyage to another land that is nevertheless familiar. It is gentle, violent, abrupt and entrancing. Murakami's worlds take you through the Looking Glass. Sometimes, the world you enter seems strange, disconnected and totally unrelated. But at other times, you feel like you've been offered a glimpse of your personal space of awareness that is typically hidden, but now, suddenly revealed. This novel feels like an invitation to revelation and the unknown. It is brisk, awakening, ... Read More Rating: - Great fiction from a master of the surreal'Kafka on the Shore' is yet another great Murakami novel. I'd say people will either love it or find it annoying depending on what's their take on Murakami's highly recognizable style: first of all, Murakami writes surreal fiction, being often tagged as the literary equivalent of David Lynch. Not everyhting makes senses, many things are left unexplained and there are always passages that are more 'atmospheric' than related to an actual plot. Secondly, there is always a great deal of (quintessentially ... Read More Rating: - yes to KafkaMany thought provoking references and as much symbology. A little transparent but exciting and enjoyable. Rating: - Weird is what you pay for...... and weird is what you get, with Haruki Murakami. But this novel is not merely full-blown weird; it' s about the meaning of Weird, not just in the modern sense of 'bizarre' but in the root sense also. 'Weird' is an Old Norse word meaning something like "the uncanny ability to influence Fate." The root of the word "will" has the opposite meaning: "the canny ability to resist Fate." While I doubt that Murakami had any reference to old Norse cosmogony in mind, this novel Kafka on the Shore can be read as a ... Read More 
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