Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami's novel is at once a classic quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.
##like alice in wonderland - but better.
##命運的沙暴無非是讓人無處可遁,唯一的得救之道就是走進其中,最堅強的十五歲少年,不是單純到想看看憑著自己的力量能夠逃避多久,想找到齣口必須先找到入口,不管選擇麵對還是逃避忘卻還是銘記,你心裏最隱蔽的私人圖書館終也不會消失。
##命運的沙暴無非是讓人無處可遁,唯一的得救之道就是走進其中,最堅強的十五歲少年,不是單純到想看看憑著自己的力量能夠逃避多久,想找到齣口必須先找到入口,不管選擇麵對還是逃避忘卻還是銘記,你心裏最隱蔽的私人圖書館終也不會消失。
##for the very first time found out that English is so much easier to be understood than Chinese... too much descriptions though...beautifully adapted:)
##like alice in wonderland - but better.
##因為這本書,幾乎每天都吃日本料理...雖然基本毫無關聯.....
##like alice in wonderland - but better.
##命運的沙暴無非是讓人無處可遁,唯一的得救之道就是走進其中,最堅強的十五歲少年,不是單純到想看看憑著自己的力量能夠逃避多久,想找到齣口必須先找到入口,不管選擇麵對還是逃避忘卻還是銘記,你心裏最隱蔽的私人圖書館終也不會消失。
##it is hurtful to think about if the one you love can return your love equally, let alone to think~