Just finished the wonderful, wonderful book KAFKA ON THE SHORE this afternoon! Such a great book, and such GREAT characters! With the book split between two characters, 15 year old Kafka Tamura who runs away from his abusive father to find solace in a mysterious private library run by a beautiful librarian named Miss Saeki, and a simple-minded elderly man named Nakata who speaks with cats who finds himself on a quest to find a magical doorway with only a tuff and gruff lorry driver named Hoshino to help him, there was much to captivate the imagination and as I read it, I didn't want it to end!
Once I was done, I ran online to read up more about the book, and was thrilled to find that they had done an onstage version of Kafka On The Shore, starring such luminaries as Naohito Fujiki and Rie Miyazawa!!
Very intriguing to scroll through the pictures of the performance (as well as other fans' illustrations of what they think the characters look like) though I must admit that no matter how good they are, they' ll never quite match what I imagined for myself in my head!
Kafka On The Shore is definitely one of my BIG faves!
