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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Nakata, one of the two key protagonists of this novel, commits a murder in the early pages of Kafka on the Shore. Or so it seems—the details are so surreal, the whole scene might be a hallucination. Nakata has stumbled upon a strange figure dressed in the garb of Johnnie Walker, the famous figure from the logo for a popular brand of Scotch whisky, who m…

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