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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The implosion of truth
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Vintage £7.99, pp505 Haruki Murakami has often been described as a surrealist writer. But his latest novel is less a search for truth in the imaginary than a Kafkaesque implosion of truth. Kafka on the Shore follows ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
22 Reviews
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my all times fav
Last time like 3 years ago I read the Chinese translation and this time I just thought, why don't I try to read the English translation? I'm glad that I did make a change. I prefer the Eng one.
Anyway, the mood during the course of reading is basically the same. First you felt dizzy, then you' ... (continue)
fruit said on Jun 14, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | 1 feedback
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Reading Kafka on the Shore
A complex, intertwined narrative featuring two key players, Kafka on the Shore meanders back and forth between a 15-year-old Japanese runaway who calls himself Kafka and an elderly man, Nakata, who is "slow" due to an accident suffered in childhood. While each story is basically an entity into itsel ... (continue)
moogle said on May 29, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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annemarie said on Aug 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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A parallel world, not a higher level
Life in reality is strangely ordinary. The presence of a parallel world, an after-life world, opens the door to a world bigger than our ordinary presence. A bigger world, as reflected in our day-to-day ordinariness. Fascinating presentation of the door, a pathway to go beyond mundane affairs in o ... (continue)
Willis Koo said on Jan 6, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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Ramzi Bouzerda said on Oct 19, 2011 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback
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a mess
At the beginning I thought it was interesting, those reviews about the strange accident, the fact that this man developed the skill to understand the language of cats (probably because I love cats) and the story about the boy running away from home...it could have been an interesting story. But as i ... (continue)
Marty said on Sep 17, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 448 Pages
- ISBN-10: 5551416399
- ISBN-13: 9785551416395
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2005
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Leather Bound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Kill me or the cat gets it
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Phillip Gabriel 656pp, Harvill, £12.99 When the English translation of Haruki Murakami's bestselling A Wind-Up Bird Chronicle transformed one of Japan's best-kept literary secrets into the world's ... (read full critics)