![]() The even numbered chapters tell the story of Satoru Nakata, a man who is on a mission to find a lost cat. Ultimately, Kafka’s attempted escape from his home life fails and he returns to a life in Tokyo. But Kafka’s new life is threatened when he and an old man whom he has never met are wanted in connection with the murder of his father. He develops strong feelings of love for the mysterious Miss Saeki who runs the library (and who may or may not be his mother), and he develops a friendship with a young woman named Sakura (who may or may not be his sister). Kafka himself comes to work in the library, living out of a vacant room in the back of the building. He grows to be close friends with a man named Oshima who works at the library. Having always loved libraries, in Takamatsu Kafka is drawn to the Komura Memorial Library, where he spends the majority of his time reading Burton’s translation of The Arabian Nights, and the complete works of Natsume Soseki. He runs away from home in an attempt to challenge fate and escape the prophecy made by his father that he would one day murder his father and be with his mother and sister. The odd numbered chapters tell the story of the young man who on the night before/morning of his fifteenth birthday takes on the assumed name Kafka Tamura and boards a bus heading from Tokyo to Takamatsu in the Shikoku region of Japan. ![]()
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