Fiction & Literature
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, while the elderly Nakata follows an equally mysterious course. Their stories move toward one another through talking cats, unsettling coincidences and uncertain borders between dream and reality, as questions of fate and identity accumulate.
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