Kafka on the Shore Espionage For 15-year-old Michael Berg

For 15-year-old Michael Berg

an event that is to shatter their lives

"A happy family"

resist peer pressure

A bride is haunted by her dead lover on her wedding day

Kafka on the Shore Espionage For 15-year-old Michael BergKafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who 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 and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their