Toru Watanabe is a university student who goes through life with little conviction and no certain path before him. This novel is nothing short of a literary miracle: only a masterful writer can create such a coherent and tender book out of such weird materials. But when you read the actual novel everything seems (1) natural and (2) oddly innocent, and despite dealing with some very heavy themes, the heart of the novel is poetic and soft. The thing about Kafka on the Shore is that if you sit down and summarize the story from the beginning to the end to someone who has not read the novel, they’ll probably think it’s an extremely bizarre and convoluted story with a lot of disturbing and “edgy” elements (murder, incest, rape fantasies, abusive parents, war crimes, etc).
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