Kafka on the Shore

Version: Unabridged
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Sean Barrett , Oliver Le Sueur
Genres: Literature
Publisher: Naxos of America
Date: May 2006
Length: 17 hours
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Overview

In Kafka on the Shore, Murakami, Japan's leading literary novelist continues his remarkable combination of profound insight into humankind with a totally credible touch of the fantastical - "...like an Indiana Jones movie or something." The teenager Kafka Tamura runs away from home to the island of Shikoku, where he spends his time at a private library. Concurrently, Satoru Nakata, a finder of lost cats, goes on an odyssey across Japan in search of an "entrance stone." Gradually, these parallel stories interweave in an engaging and moving novel.

Selected Reviews

Very cool

by Charles
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Really really bad

by ABW
  • Book Rating: 1/5

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Reviews (2)

Very cool

Written by Charles on July 2nd, 2009

  • Book Rating: 4/5

This is a very cool book. I sent this one back early, but I did get through about 7/8ths of it. The promise of the climax is not terrifically alluring (so I skipped it), but the adventure up until the climax is very cool and funny. I recommend this one.

Really really bad

Written by ABW on November 29th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 1/5

I wanted to like this book. I really did. But I just couldn't. It was slow and self-indulgent in its characters' constant introspection. It was unnecessarily graphic in some scenes, which added nothing to the story. The language was ridiculously clinical in many places...whether the author meant the characters to appear detached by the word choice, I do not know. Do not waste your time on this book.

Selected Reviews

Very cool

by Charles
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Really really bad

by ABW
  • Book Rating: 1/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Murakami, Haruki

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.