Kafka on the Shore
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world's greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender" (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka ...show more
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Beautifully written but author has no sense of female anatomy and SURE it can be blamed on the character being 15 yo? But there were adult female characters in this book as well, and they were being written in a very demeaning light in my opinion.
The slice of life aspect made it a delicate book, if you manage to look past the portrayal of women and the peculiar sexual metaphors
I don't judge anyone by their reading preferences. But I will give a captious look whenever someone will say this was a 5 star read.
When it’s murakami, i can’t say it in words, it’s weird, not everyone will enjoy this but i loved this, this fucked up my brain
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