Kafka on the Shore University of Chicago Press And yet they were survivors

And yet they were survivors

but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation

It is about friendship

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Kafka on the Shore University of Chicago Press And yet they were survivorsAlternate cover edition here. Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, 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