Jayden Kim từ Lido Pizzo LE, Italy

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12/22/2024

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2019-02-11 06:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jane Bingham

This was my second book after Murakami's After Dark. As much as I loved After Dark, nothing in it prepared me for the intricate structuring and brilliant writing of this complex and multi-layered novel. Kafka on The Shore involves two main characters, Kafka Tamura and Saturo Nakata who are both on quests that are separate but interrelated. 15 year old Kafka runs away from his father partially to defy him but primarily to search for his long-lost mother and sister. He ends up at a library where a mysterious woman, and what may be her living ghost haunts him. 60 year old Nakata was brain damaged by an unusual occurrence in his youth but now has the ability to talk to cats and predicts, maybe even affect, the weather. Due to a gruesome event involving someone related to Kafka, Nakata becomes involved in a journey that he doesn't understand. The novel succeeds on so many levels that it is hard to describe without giving too much away. It is a complex fantasy involving ideas of the afterlife and aspects of Shintoism. It is a psychological novel with deep Oedipal references. It is a labyrinth of alternate realities and ideas. But mostly is it an engrossing read that had me deeply identifying with the characters. There is one other person in the novel that intrigued me. Somewhat late in the story, A young truck driver named Hoshino becomes interested in Nakata and helps him out because he reminds him of his grandfather. Hoshino is the most ordinary person in the novel and that is what attracts me to him. While Kafka and Nakata are thrown in these weird circumstances, Hoshino chooses to follow this uncertain quest and at the end he is the catalyst (no pun intended) that resolves the journey. One warning: Early in the novel there is an event of animal cruelty that will repulse most and upset the squeamish. However,I can't think of any scene that is more essential to the development of the story. Deal with it and enjoy the rest of the novel.

2019-02-11 07:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mai Bửu Minh

I've been saying to people - it would be very easy to reduce the illustrations and design aspects of this novel to gimmickry, if they weren't backed up by seriously good writing. Which they are, so it ends up being something right up my alley - a great novel with interesting, quirky visual elements. There were turns of phrase that made me warm inside. The characterization of TS was wonderful - though he and his parents are the only real characters, I think, and his parents are only half-known, in the way that children know their parents. (The rest of the characters are just foils, not real people.) That makes this such an insular, and yet also a universal experience. The lack of temporal markers in Montana was curious only when they did show up - Sour Gummi Tape. Nostalgia for cowboys, for kids growing up in the open, for riding the rails, even - coming up against the real allure of McDonalds and also the length of shorts - he wants this to be timeless or boy-out-of-his-own-time? - that I questioned this made it weird. Also, the parts of his mother's journal were interesting and important, but like AS Byatt, I found myself wanting to skip it and get back to the real stuff (though I didn't, because he was far less tiresome than she is). The plot is shaky in parts, and the pacing is irregular...these are things I'm willing to chalk up to "first-time novelist". The ending doesn't quite match the beginning (I know it's highly implausible from the start, but a real-seeming situation makes its way into movie-script hijinks by the time TS arrives in Washington), but the entire trip was definitely worth it in order to know the voice of TS. The core of what's there - a boy's becoming a man, family relationships, how to get the inside of your idiosyncratic head to relate in some real way to the universal outside...in addition to the fate of "science" as a pursuit in our time - all that is good. Um, also, TS includes within his top nine movies: "Flight of the Navigator", "The Explorers", "Batteries Not Included", "Sneakers", and "Microcosmos"...(a) this guy is definitely from my era. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with next.

Người đọc Jayden Kim từ Lido Pizzo LE, Italy

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.