World Fantasy Award Winner
The winners of the World Fantasy Awards (covering works published in 2005) were announced this weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Austin, Texas. The winner of the Best Novel was Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami.
Kafka on the Shore is a surreal fantasy, set in present-day Japan. There are 2 parallel narratives running through the work. The first is that of 15-year-old Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home to find his mother and sister. The other is elderly Satoru Nakata, whose long-ago accident has left him able to speak with cats, but who is otherwise feeble-minded. A disturbing, and sometimes violently and sexually explicit, masterpiece of the fantastic.
If you enjoy Kafka on the Shore, the Somerset County Library System has many of his other novels and story collections.
Kafka on the Shore is a surreal fantasy, set in present-day Japan. There are 2 parallel narratives running through the work. The first is that of 15-year-old Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home to find his mother and sister. The other is elderly Satoru Nakata, whose long-ago accident has left him able to speak with cats, but who is otherwise feeble-minded. A disturbing, and sometimes violently and sexually explicit, masterpiece of the fantastic.
If you enjoy Kafka on the Shore, the Somerset County Library System has many of his other novels and story collections.
posted by Hillsborough Library Adult Services at 7:49 AM
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