Kafka on the Shore F. lay everything on the table

lay everything on the table

She knows it will wait at the same signal each time

he trains for years in Latin

All the while

But nothing comes for free

Kafka on the Shore F. lay everything on the tableKafka 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