![]() He pulls this off at least two more times. Asleep for Days: When Hoshino and Nakata arrive in Shikoku, Nakata promptly goes to sleep for 34 hours.Arc Words: Cryptic references to an "entrance stone" start showing up about halfway into the book.Ambiguously Bi: Kafka is attracted to women, but there's a great deal of subtext surrounding his friendship with Oshima, who is openly gay. ![]() ![]() Abusive Parents: Kafka's father was emotionally distant and abusive.It begins realistic enough, but soon takes a turn for the surreal and it becomes clear that neither will be having a normal journey. The second follows Nakata, a mentally slow old man who has the ability to talk to cats, as he gets dragged into a journey across Japan running parallel to Kafka's own. The first is about fifteen year-old " Kafka" Tamura who runs away from home in order to avoid fulfilling an oedipal prophecy. ![]() Kafka on the Shore (Japanese: 海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Haruki Murakami that features two distinct plots that are nonetheless intertwined. On my fifteenth birthday I’ll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library. It’d take a week to go into the whole thing, all the details. ![]()
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