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Kafka on the Shore

Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
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Summary

 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed 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 a deceptively simple old man.

Now with a new introduction by the author.

Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a strikingexperience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Destiny
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What the critics say

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

“An insistently metaphysical mind-bender.”
—The New Yorker

“If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present.”
—The New York Times
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I really liked this book and the performance perfectly suited it. Characters were well written and the voice performance of each character was distinctive and appealing.

A literary layer-cake, elegantly performed

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Always wanted to read this book but I'm too busy to read an actual book. Good thing it's on audible! Nice narration overall

This book is such a good find

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I really like the way is was written. The characters and the plot is awesome as always with this amazing writer, i have to say it reminds me a little bit of other books from him. I would recommend this book to someone who has experience listening to audio books but just starting to like them, because I have to say it’s long but the story is very engaging.

If you know Haruki murakami

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I’ve read multiple books by Murakami, but nothing touched me more than this one. A constant tasteful mix of reality with unlimited range of theories and possibilities. The book is a metaphor, a poem about youth, search of love and tying to make sense of this world.

Unforgettable journey

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This is the second book I've read by this author, and wow - such an incredible, weird, intriguing, compelling, and thoughtful story. This is an absolute must-read, I will be recommending to everyone I know. The narration is superb, the two narrators have very distinct voices that lend perfectly to the tone of their respective characters. I don't want to say too much about it as to keep the story for you to discover on your own, but this is one of my top 5 audio books of all time. Give yourself the gift of discovering this story.

So Weird, SO GOOD!!

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