Kafka on the Shore South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2001) Siken's voice is striking

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

I must prove I can be the rock

Come laugh and cry with the March family in this beloved classic

Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years

Kafka on the Shore South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2001) Siken's voice is strikingKafka 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