Kafka on the Shore Audiobook (Free)

With Kafka around the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and all over the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing reputation suggests that it’ll be browse and admired for decades to come.

This magnificent new novel includes a similarly extraordinary scope as well as the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de drive of metaphysical reality, it about Kafka in the Shore is definitely driven by two exceptional character types: a teenage youngster, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or even to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an maturing simpleton known as Nakata, who hardly ever recovered from a wartime affliction and now is certainly drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic actions of lifestyle, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as secret to them since it is definitely to us, is usually enriched throughout by vibrant accomplices and mesmerizing occasions. Cats and folks carry on interactions, a ghostlike pimp uses a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors military apparently unaged since Globe War II, and rainstorms of seafood (and even worse) fall from your sky. There’s a brutal murder, with the identification of both victim and perpetrator a riddle-yet this, along with everything else, is definitely eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually exposed, with one escaping his destiny entirely and the various other given a fresh start on his own.

Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka for the Shore displays among the world’s truly great storytellers in the height of his powers.