[UA] UA-ish book: Kafka on the shore

[Scott McDaniel]

Oh, agreed - many of Murakami's works are UA-friendly, and I somehow
never thought of it.
I think KFC = Johnny Walker, but I don't want to discuss too much
about it lest it spoil anything
(not that much is terribly surprise-dependent).

Not to mention the 'ghost!'  Oh, geez...you've given me a whole new
way to read his books.

Scott

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:43 PM,  <mattiasostklint at lycos.com> wrote:
> Just finished "Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami (the translation to english).
>
> It is indeed a good book, with a strong UA vibe. Not the non-stop action of a Tim Powers novel, but deeply symbolical with good descriptions of how someone gets dragged into the occult underground. The first and last man is there (in the shape of the KFC guy) something horrible (I think) takes the shape of Johnie Walker (the whisky label guy), cats are talking, someone is killed by proxy, a strange event back during WW2 still affects people today and there's a description of an otherspace or a house of renunciation. Or the afterlife, I'm not sure. It is by no means rules-compliant, but there's plenty of inspiration in there.
>
> Recommended!
>
> Mattias
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