![]() Kafka, who has hopes he may find the mother and sister who left when he was little, finds his way to the island of Shikoku where, in a private library in Takamatsu, he gets given a job and a room. Though a teacher confesses it was a beating from her that caused brain damaged that took away memory and reading skills but gave him a new ability: he can communicate with cats. Then there is the story of an old man called Nakata (Katsumi Kiba) who survived teenage exposure to what he believes was a great flash of light in the sky that left him unconscious for weeks. First there is a 15-year-old lad who chooses to call himself Kafka (Nino Furuhata) who runs away from home where he lives with his father to avoid a prediction like the one that cursed Oedipus. This is not one but two intertwining stories. Indeed its plot and complexities are far more than could be fitted into an ordinary length evening in the theatre. ![]() Haruki Murakami is a fascinating writer though his books are often surreal novels can be quite difficult to interpret-John Updike described this one as "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender". ![]()
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