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February 11, 2017 by pluiedenovembre Leave a Comment

Kafka on the Shore is a strange book, even by Murakami standards. This is my second reading but sadly I don’t remember what I thought about it the fist time I read it 12 years ago because back then I didn’t take notes or write reviews. All I know is that I thought it was a four-star book. Haruki Murakami has been one of my favorite writers ever since I “discovered” him almost 17 years ago. I read a review of The Elephant Vanishes in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cats, curses, Dreams, family, haruki murakami, Japan, Japanese literature, journey, kafka on the shore, literaturein translation, myths, runaways, surrealism, talking cats, translation

pluiedenovembre's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cats, curses, Dreams, family, haruki murakami, Japan, Japanese literature, journey, kafka on the shore, literaturein translation, myths, runaways, surrealism, talking cats, translation ·
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