Review by mrbean - Kafka on the Shore

mrbean 's review for:

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Kafka on the Shore, a surrealist ode to time and memory, enchants readers with its poetic allure and induces a dreamlike trance that lingers long past the final page. Murakami exquisitely uses the absurd to depict the world as it is, where nothing is as it seems. Reading the novel is like having a lucid dream that is transient, enigmatic, and ambiguous, yet also evocative, ineffable, and profound all at once.

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