Coming of Age

Stories of growing up, first experiences, and transformation.

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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Two narratives unfold in parallel: a fifteen-year-old boy fleeing his father's Oedipal prophecy, and an elderly man who can talk to cats and make fish rain from the sky. A signature blend of the mundane and the metaphysical.
Japan 2002
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Toru Watanabe recalls his student years in Tokyo during the late 1960s and his relationships with two very different women against a backdrop of student radicalism and personal loss. Murakami's most realistic and most commercially successful novel.
Japan 1987
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