Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, whose 2005 English translation was among The New York Times's ten best books of 2005 and received the 2006 World Fantasy Award. The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish fifteen-year-old boy who runs away from his Oedipal curse, and Satoru Nakata, an old, mentally disabled man with the uncanny ability to talk to cats, incorporating themes of music as a communicative conduit, metaphysics, dreams, fate and the subconscious. The novel was generally well received, with positive reviews from John Updike and The New York Times. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/