Kafka on the Shore

Hardcover, 448 pages

English language

Published Jan. 18, 2005 by Knopf.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-4366-8
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OCLC Number:
56095515

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Review of 'Kafka on the shore' on 'Storygraph'

1 star

A quite interesting mystery full of self-discovery at its core, with quite an unusual narrative that tells this story from multiple angles at once, this book seemed quite promising from the start. However, the overly casual dialogues that oscillate between intentionally inarticulate and pseudo-intellectual quickly got on my nerves, and the subsequent attempts to make light of pedophilia as well as incest were only the last straw. I'm fairly confident that this is the worst book that I've read in the past decade or so.

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  • Literary
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Historical - General