Why should you read “Kafka on the Shore”? - Iseult Gillespie
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Desperate to escape his tyrannical father and the family curse he feels doomed to repeat, Haruki Murakami’s teenage protagonist renames himself “Kafka” after his favorite author and runs away from home. So begins “Kafka on the Shore”— an epic literary puzzle filled with time travel, hidden histories and magical underworlds. Iseult Gillespie dives into Murakami’s mind-bending and whimsical novel.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Iseult Gillespie
- Director
- Daniel Freire
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
- Producer
- Felipe Grosso, Liana Vianna, Odirlei Seixas
- Editor
- Daniel Freire
