num_pages: 20
description: In Kafka on the Shore, Murakami, Japan's leading literary novelist continues his remarkable combination of profound insight into humankind with a totally credible touch of the fantastical ? ?...like an Indiana Jones movie or something.? The teenager Kafka Tamura runs away from home to the island of Shikoku, where he spends his time at a private library. Concurrently, Satoru Nakata, a finder of lost cats, goes on an odyssey across Japan in search of an ?entrance stone.? Gradually, these parallel stories interweave in an engaging and moving novel.
language: English
title: Kafka on the Shore
titlecomplete: Kafka on the Shore
characters: Hoshino, Sakura, Miss Saeki, Kafka Tamura, Satoru Nakata, Oshima
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 445430
places: Japan, Takamatsu
series: 海辺のカフカ
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Philip Gabriel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Tähtifantasia Award, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Βραβείο Βιβλίου Public
category: Μεταφρασμένο μυθιστόρημα της χρονιάς (Translator: Αργυρώ Μαντόγλου), awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Naxos Audio Books