Kafka on the Shore University of Chicago Press The speaker contemplates his own

The speaker contemplates his own existence and struggles between living and a desire to depart

This collection of four plays by Alfian Sa’at explores the themes that have become a hallmark of the playwright’s work: national identity

witness events that lead to a forbidden liaison and tragedies that reveal big things lurking unsaid in a country drifting toward unrest

a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be

But why does he choose to represent clients who are to all intents and purposes guilty

Kafka on the Shore University of Chicago Press The speaker contemplates his ownAlternate cover edition here. Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily