具體描述
《村上春樹:海邊的卡夫卡》為英文版：The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen——it's page thirteen in Kafka On The Shore——the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply.
Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world1s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days——continuing his impressive self-education——and is befriended by a transgendered clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.
用戶評價
##被R硬塞給我讓我讀英文版，囧（ps.事實證明英文版果然比中文版好啊）
##前半部分精彩得多。我以為登山昏迷事件到後半部分會有一個閤理的解釋然而沒有。卡夫卡很多內心戲看得人心煩意亂。
##2021.12, 把英文版又看瞭一遍
##終於讀完瞭，讀到最後越來越迷糊，不知道情節怎麼穿插的，不過英文版的翻譯的確不錯，通俗易懂，還能教你很多人身體部分的單詞，我發誓讀這本書之前絕不知道BJ,hand-job,jack off等單詞，很俚語，很專業哦。
##charmingly flawed, disturbingly entertaining
##the toughest 15 year old boy
##翻譯的超級棒！勝過原著！
##the toughest 15 year old boy
##end for end, begin for begin.