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

[mattiasostklint at lycos.com]

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