Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami

Book overview

Kafka on the Shore is the second novel  written  by ther by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

The book is about the 15-year-old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and more welcoming Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of One Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder.

 

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