Books: Bookworm's Adda discussion

Goodreads:

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.


Happy reading!

~RP

Reading update #1

I'm 30% (on chapter 15) inside the book and so far I'm enjoying the book.

The language of the book is quite simple and modern. The characters and their introduction is superbly done by Murakami. This is why perhaps I feel a lot closer to both leading characters and can understand them well.

There are two different stories, running simultaneously and it'll be very interesting to see how both stories are connected, if at all they are.

Happy reading!

~RP