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"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.　You change direction but the sandstorm chases you.　You turn again,　but the storm adjusts.　Over and over you play this out,　like some ominous dance with death just before dawn.　Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away·-- This storm is you.　Something inside of you. "

This quote,　from the first chapter of Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore, " captures the teenage protagonist's turmoil.　Desperate to escape his tyrannical father and the family curse he feels doomed to repeat, he renames himself Kafka after his favorite author and runs away from home.　But memories of a missing mother,　along with dreams that haunt his waking life, prove more difficult to outrun.

Published in Japanese in 2002 and translated into English three years later,　"Kafka on the Shore" is an epic literary puzzle filled with time travel, hidden histories,　and magical underworlds.　Readers delight in discovering how the mind-bending imagery, whimsical characters and eerie coincidences fit together.

Kafka narrates every second chapter,with the rest centering on an old man named Satoru Nakata.After awakening from a coma he went into during the Second World War,Nakata loses the ability to read and write- but gains a mysterious knack for talking to cats. When he's asked to tail a missing pet, he's thrown onto a dangerous path that runs parallel to Kafka's.

Soon prophecies come true, portals to different dimensions open up - and fish and leeches begin raining from the sky. But what ties these two characters together - and is it a force either one of them can control?

The collision of different worlds is a common thread in Haruki Murakami's work. His novels and short stories often forge fantastic connections between personal experience,supernatural possibilities,and Japanese history.

【单词短语】

1. ominous

2. dance with death

3. turmoil

4. name after

5. waking life

6. delight in

7. mind-bending

8. center on

【地道美语，长句精练】

1. Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.

2. Over and over you play this out

3. Desperate to escape his tyrannical father, he runs away from home.

【课堂纠音，上节连读】

1. First, flag your feelings without becoming emotionally leaky.

2. I want to make sure l get everything done ahead of the deadline.

3. Read the room and provide a path forward