The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22nd, 2005
Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Knopf, 2005. 436 pp. $25.95. In Amerika Franz Kafka, who never saw the sea, located Oklahoma on the shore of the Pacific. Haruki Murakami locates Kafka in his Pacific Rim homeland, Japan. But instead of the Czech novelist, it is a fifteen-year-old named Kafka Tamura who is one of two protagonists in Kafka on the Shore. Kafka flees his home in Tokyo and takes refuge in a private library in distant Takamatsu. In chapters that alternate with young Kafka's, elderly Nakata also makes his way from Tokyo, following an enigmatic intuition. A...
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