Kafka on the Shore
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
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Sad story. Really pulls at the heartstrings on a level. Enjoyed it. A bit of slipping between alternate dimensions going on (like in 1Q84).
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