具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
評分##英文很美，但是我覺得做作。
評分##很早以前看過中文版，我到底有無聊纔會花一個月時間把英文有聲書聽完。。。
評分##怎麼說呢，我很喜歡譯者啊……
評分##英文比中文好。
評分##很早以前看過中文版，我到底有無聊纔會花一個月時間把英文有聲書聽完。。。
評分##五百多頁的長篇，居然能寫得這麼空洞，概念化，莫名其妙，還真是少見...很少讀小說會覺得這麼無聊，想起前些年看「舞舞舞」也是這麼難受... 再次確定村上隻是一個擁有眾多讀者的二流作者。
評分##確切說來是在聽有聲書。有一搭沒一搭，上班路上聽十分鍾。
評分##英文翻譯可讀性強很多，大概一來村上受英文文學影響太重，二來林少華功力還是不行
