Kafka on the Shore
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Kafka on the Shore is a surreal, genre-blending novel by Haruki Murakami that intertwines the journeys of a runaway teenager and an elderly man who can talk to cats in a dreamlike exploration of memory, fate, and identity.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kafka on the Shore canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Haruki Murakami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| englishPublicationDate | 2005 ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
dream sequences
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metafictional references ⓘ supernatural phenomena ⓘ talking cats ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age novel
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contemporary fiction ⓘ fantasy fiction ⓘ magical realism ⓘ metafiction ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
classical music
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crows ⓘ labyrinths ⓘ libraries ⓘ music ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 505 (English hardback, approx.) ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Oedipal myth
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fate ⓘ free will ⓘ identity ⓘ loneliness ⓘ memory ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ |
| isbn | 9781400043668 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Hoshino
NERFINISHED
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Kafka Tamura NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Saeki NERFINISHED ⓘ Oshima NERFINISHED ⓘ Satoru Nakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person
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third-person ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | dual narrative ⓘ |
| notableLocation | private library in Takamatsu ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| originalTitle | 海辺のカフカ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Haruki Murakami bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Shinchosha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Japan
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Shikoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedBy | Philip Gabriel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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