false 4929 1400079276 9781400079278 14096 1701 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165515991m/4929.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore 3354 Haruki Murakami 103250 11362 4 0 false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 18:24:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 22:23:08 -0700 2009
Out of new books to read and looking for something on my shelf, I decided to pick this up and give it a second chance, this time with the understanding that I was going to see Murakami's auctorial hand visibly moving around his oddly shaped pieces. Sure enough, I liked it much better. The book has a lot of evocative imagery and is very readable. While it doesn't really make any sense, it fits together in a clever jigsaw way and ends rather poignantly. In a lot of ways, the literal parts are metaphor and the metaphors are literal.]]>