Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by viv...
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami's novel is at once a classic quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.
Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka...
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a...
Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka...
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.
Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife.
Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).
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上海译文出版社2003版
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严锋
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石头摇篮
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时间是食肉的
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精美的尸体
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0 有用 贾正经 2012-11-07 00:57:35
怎么说呢，我很喜欢译者啊……
1 有用 小波福娃 2012-04-22 18:43:53
很早以前看过中文版，我到底有无聊才会花一个月时间把英文有声书听完。。。
0 有用 SCOTTKF 2009-11-23 14:25:30
英文翻译真牛！“sub city”...
0 有用 子风 2009-01-06 00:45:30
英文翻译可读性强很多，大概一来村上受英文文学影响太重，二来林少华功力还是不行
1 有用 KKKKFu 2020-12-13 11:47:37
一个男孩的成长与救赎。其实挺符合我的心境despite of gender 村上的书里面似乎每一个女性角色都得要跟书里男角色发生性关系。刻画女角色时的male gaze很让我不适。 ——12.13.2020 于ryan wang处借
0 有用 Lei 2023-07-16 21:17:26 北京
很喜欢！！！孤独感和寻找自我大概是一个人的课题
0 有用 柴米油盐 2023-01-28 21:03:39 中国香港
20230109-20230128 // pretty random. not even close to kafka’s writing
0 有用 鲨鱼智者 2022-11-27 02:12:44 广东
看完爱上了吃鳗鱼饭
0 有用 Redneval 2022-08-15 11:42:26
我是谁的谁 in the end we all gotta forge deep into the forest being accompanied only by our long gone memories
0 有用 与兔子 2022-04-28 13:29:12
最喜欢Hoshino和Oshima了！他们天真和直白的那种好是我觉得书里最感动的地方。 Hoshino每次讲Mr. Nakata的语气都让我awwww的叫，他会以另一种角度追寻世界的:) 以及，对不起但是性爱的描写实在想让我拿头撞墙…