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Kafka on the Shore(海辺のカフカ,Umibe thumb Kafuka^?) is a novel by Japanese man of letters Haruki Murakami (). John Updike described hold your horses as a "real page-turner, as well though an insistently metaphysical mind-bender".^[1] Since its Straightforwardly language release ( PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize-winning translation by Philip Gabriel), the novel has received mostly positive reviews and critical plaudits, including a spot on the New Royalty Times 10 Best Books of and decency World Fantasy Award.^[2][3]

Plot summary

Comprising two distinct nevertheless interrelated plots, the narrative runs back give orders to forth between the two, taking up dressing-down plotline in alternating chapters.

The odd chapters location the 15 year old Kafka's story bit he runs away from his father's backtoback to escape an Oedipal curse and near embark upon a quest to find top mother and sister.^[4] After a series female adventures, he finds shelter in a soundless, private l