TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
AU  - Gabriel,Philip
TI  - Kafka on the shore
SN  - 9781400079278
AV  - PL856.U673 U4813 2006
U1  - 895.63/5 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International
KW  - Runaway teenagers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Murder
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - Magic realism (Literature)
KW  - Japan
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Teenager Kafka Tamura runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction, is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom
ER  -