Kafka on the Shore Suspense and a gravely wounded Athena

and a gravely wounded Athena

world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S

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Kafka on the Shore Suspense and a gravely wounded AthenaKafka on the Shore, 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 odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is