Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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Kafka-on-the-Shore-by-Haruki-Murakami:Kafka-on-the-Shore,-a-tour-de-force-of-metaphysical-reality,-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.Their-odyssey,-as-mysterious-to-them-as-it-is-to-us,-is-enriched-throughout-by-vivid-accomplices-and-mesmerizing-events.Cats-and-people-carry-on-conversations,-a-ghostlike-pimp-employs-a-Hegel-quoting-prostitute,a-forest-harbors-soldiers-apparently-unaged-since-World-War-II,-and-rainstorms-of-fish-(and-worse)-fall-from-the-sky.There-is-a-brutal-murder,-with-the-identity-of-both-victim-and-perpetrator-a-riddle—yet-this,along-with-everything-else,-is-eventually-answered,-just-as-the-entwined-destinies-of-Kafka-and-Nakata-are-gradually-revealed,with-one-escaping-his-fate-entirely-and-the-other-given-a-fresh-start-on-his-own.