Kafka on the Shore South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2001) In Christian’s own words

In Christian’s own words

This edition includes an introduction by Louise Rennison

Siken's voice is striking

unworldly Ana seems to see right through him – past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold

This edition contains notes to help students' understanding

Kafka on the Shore South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2001) In Christian’s own wordsKafka 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 life, he cannot fathom. Their