![]() This enchantingly peculiar bildungsroman begins with the mysterious 15-year-old Kafka fleeing his home in Tokyo to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, while sequential chapters unravel the meanderings of Nakata, an ageing gentleman afflicted with a bizarre childhood injury and who, remarkably, possesses an ability to talk to cats. Kafka on the Shore narrates the metaphysical ponderings of its eponymous hero, Kafka Tamura, and his apparently incidental cosmic counterpart, Satoru Nakata. ![]() What better time, then, to tackle Haruki Murakami’s great metaphysical and introspective mind-bender, Kafka on the Shore? Elegantly diminishing boundaries between reality and dream, waking-life and the subconscious, Murakami holds his ground as a master of magical realist literature in this novel of 2002. ![]() under lockdown for much of 2020, our newfound abundance of time has inspired new heights of introspection among many. ![]()
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