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also involves searching for a lost cat). Having finally located and returned one particular cat to its owners, Nakata finds that the circumstances of the case have put him on a path which, unfolding one step at a time before him, takes the illiterate man far away from his familiar and comforting home
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contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape. And the form this solution takes will be different for each reader. To put it another way, the riddles function as
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curse. Kafka's heart is Kafka, his self-constructed personality, while his unconscious, the one who fulfilled the
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where multiple children, including Nakata, collapse in the woods – Nakata, after the incident, is the only one of the children who came out of the incident without any memory and unable to read and write. The incident is initially blamed on poisonous gas, but it is later revealed that it was the
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curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in
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