Kafka op het strand

Kafka op het strand

3.8 (27 ratings)
2014 · English · Paperback · 122 editions
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Coming of age' roman over de 15-jarige Kafka Tamura die, om te ontkomen aan de voorspelling dat hij met zijn verdwenen moeder en zijn zus zal slapen, van huis wegloopt. Op onverklaarbare wijze wordt de jongen aangetrokken tot een bibliotheek in Takamatsu en tot de directrice, mevrouw Saeki. Kafka's pad kruist eveneens dat van het meisje Sakura, van een bibliothecaris, en van de geheimzinnige meneer Nakata, die met katten praat. De laatste was in de oorlog het slachtoffer van massahysterie en spoort niet helemaal. Als Kafka's vader op gruwelijke wijze in Tokyo vermoord wordt, raken de gebeurtenissen in een stroomversnelling.

Book Details

Format Paperback
Pages 640 pages
Language English
Published Sep 1, 2014
Publisher Atlas Contact
ISBN-10 9025443753
ISBN-13 9789025443757

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The best book of Murakami I have read. Both the characters,Nakata and Kafka, are well written. I had only one complain from Murakami that his starting and ending are not much good but in 'Kafka on the Shore' both the starting and ending was well written.

July 23rd 2026

I went into this book without knowing anything about it or about its author. I just read the first two chapters and became interested to read more. I am like 80 pages into it,and I know I can't read the rest. If I had researched a bit about, I probably wouldn't have started reading it in the first place. Because it is said that it is somehow similar to Cather in the Rye, the book I hate, but most people like. But the reason I quit reading it was't its similarity to Cather in the Rye. But it was the graphic sex scene, when the two involved were supposedly siblings. ugh. The rest is worse.I assure you. He is supposedly get involved with his mom, too. How can anyone like this book is beyond me. It's official now. It was the first and the last book I read ( or tried to read) by this author.

February 27th 2026

Tamura Kafka scappa di casa cercando se stesso e un destino nascosto. Al contempo, il signor Nakata, colui che parla coi gatti, parte inconsapevole alla ricerca di una strana pietra. Tra sogni, presagi, erezioni e piogge di pesci, i loro destini si sfioreranno, e la loro vita cambierà per sempre. Kafka sulla spiaggia è un romanzo che incanta e disorienta, intrecciando realtà e sogno con la leggerezza di una melodia. Haruki Murakami conduce il lettore in un viaggio visionario, dove le atmosfere surreali, i simboli enigmatici e i dialoghi con i gatti aprono porte interiori che lasciano senza fiato. Se a tratti l’intreccio può sembrare oscuro e sfuggente, è proprio in questa ambiguità che il romanzo trova la sua forza: invita a perdersi per ritrovarsi, a lasciarsi guidare dalla poesia dell’assurdo. Un libro che non si legge soltanto, ma si attraversa come un sogno indelebile.

May 14th 2025
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