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May 31, 2014 Batool rated it it was amazing

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مغامرة فانتازية مع أقوى فتى في الخامسة عشر في العالم!
رواية ساحرة/ سحرية الأجواء والأحداث،
موراكامي وأسلوبه المتفرّد في جعل القارئ يقف على قدمية دهشة وحماس مفرط والأحداث التي تتوالى بسرعة تجعلك تلهث.
الرواية تقع على ثلاثة خطوط متوازية سرعان ما تندمج لتصبح خطّ رواية متماسك واحد، حرّك الأحداث ما بين المسارات بطريقة سلسة وجميلة.
أراهن على أنك لن تستطيع التنبأ بمجريات الرواية أبدًا.

ناكاتا يحب الحنكليس

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Mar 17, 2013 سارة الراجحي rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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اووووووف ماهذا الخيال...الفلسفة ...العمق...
شيء من الافكار العبثية تتخلل السطور
الاباحية الغير مبررة قللت من قيمة الرواية ...
عدا ذلك موراكامي يعرف جيدا كيف يخترق عمقك مدعيا انه لم يفعل شيء !

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Jan 10, 2018 Abdullah M.k. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

For such a long complex unusual reading, there must be a matching review trying to neutralize it to our normal routine prospective.
Simply it is a magnificent piece of Artwork.
To summarize it I would quote a dear friend of mine �� Asking the right questions ��. In this masterpiece you will experience the realm of spirit first hand ( you will become a spirit). You are no longer anchored to the world you call reality, you have no solid ground to help you find balance and direction, instead you are fl For such a long complex unusual reading, there must be a matching review trying to neutralize it to our normal routine prospective.
Simply it is a magnificent piece of Artwork.
To summarize it I would quote a dear friend of mine �� Asking the right questions ��. In this masterpiece you will experience the realm of spirit first hand ( you will become a spirit). You are no longer anchored to the world you call reality, you have no solid ground to help you find balance and direction, instead you are floating in a different dimension with different rules.
I have to admit that I believe ( or wanted to believe ) that Haruki Murakami is not such a genius to innovate such unprecedented concepts, but rather it was build upon values and mythology of unfamiliar culture, and I was right; Murakami himself explains it by mentioning (The Tale of Genji) which is the source he adopted his basic concept from. So we need to know more about Japanese culture and believes to properly assess this work.
Simply the concept is (spirits can transfer between bodies or leave them to fulfill their needs/wishes and affect the materialist world).
From here I’ll take two different paths to explain the journey of reading this Masterpiece.
1- The first (in my opinion the most obvious yet least important ) is the explanation of different unrealistic, strange ( apparently incoherent ) fantasies in the story; e.g. talking to cats, forest of spirits, johnnie walker .. etc.
But the man said it many many times in his own work, it is metaphors ! symbolic meanings. Never heard of Sur-realism ! never liked a painting by Salvador Dali or Rene Magritte ?! never saw any modern art work ?! cubism ?! picaso’s famous works ?! maybe never liked them .. in this case .. calm down.. you still can make rational explanation for the weird strange incidences you have read.
I’m not interested in giving the full interpretation but lets put some examples:
- Q: Kafka killed his father ? A: yes sure, his spirit took the body of Nakata to kill johnnie walker ; his father who had enough of producing art and wanted to be killed by his son and be liberated .
- Q: KFC colonel sanders ? A: yes it is the spirit of Nakata while sleeping guiding Hoshino.
- Q: Miss Saeki 15 years old girl ?A: she opened the gate once and was trapped as body in our world but her spirit in another looking for her lover.
- Q: Kafka loving the girl ? yes it is kafka body but spirit of the young lover looking for his sweetheart.
- Q: Sardines and leeches from the sky ? A: a half shadowed Nakata was trapped between the two worlds and sometimes they open connection between them. He always wanted to complete his shadow and be in one world.
Enough with such nonsense, lets focus on what matters.
2- In this novel you will experience the spirit and body as we really experience them (not as we think we experience them).we don’t have a clear cut for where we are earthy and when we are spiritual creature. When we dream or even day dream are we our bodies or our spirits ?! when we met someone and feel a connection, is it our body or sometimes our spirit ? when we do what we do, are we always ourselves or we are sometimes possessed by different spirit ?! we find ourselves sometimes too good as if we are possessed by an angelic spirit, some other times we find the evil possessing and filling our hollow inside.
So can we really accept that we might have spirits that is not limited by our bodies, or that we have bodies that sometimes get possessed by stranger spirits ?!

3- One of Murakami’s strengths was the diversity of issues and characters he introduced and in a very very talented magical way in keeping the storyline coherent.
We can see many of our dilemmas such as Love, desire, escaping our reality, accepting our fate, fighting for another life, helping others, fulfilling our purpose in life. Many conceptual issues that we come across and most probably ask ourselves in one point or antoher. And we will find those issues in the story of different characters; the young rebel boy, the old idiot man, the troubled educated lady, the driver with no purpose, the hemophilic young undetermined gender Oshima!

I feel I said enough for now .. but for sure how one reflect on this book will not end here, and there will always be more coming out of it, and more to be said. But as Murakami said ( what is not understood without explanation will not be understood with explanation). ...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Karim Bazan rated it really liked it

رواية عجيبة جدا... استطيع ان اجزم انه لا أحد يستطيع ان يفهمها من قراءتها مرة واحدة فقط...رواية تدور حول عبثية الحياة و ان القدر لا نستطيع الفكاك منه...رسائل عديدة و غامضة بين طياتها و باجواء اسطورية تارة و حقيقية تارة اخرى تجبرك على قراءتها و تأملها...و على انغام ثلاثية الارشيدوق لبيتهوفين يشعر القارئ باندماجه مع شخصياتها و لاسيما نكاتا ذلك الرجل العجوز المعاق الذي يستطيع ان يحاور القطط, تشعر معه انه شخصيه قريبة جدا من قلبك تفيض علي من حلوها و بل على القارئ بالطيبة و البساطة الشديدة
و بعد الانتها ...more

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Nov 03, 2017 Hammad rated it liked it

لا اعلم ولكنني لم استطع أن أقيم الرواية باكثر من ثلاث نجمات. الكاتب متمكن جداً ويجعلك وانت تقرأ تشاهد الشخصيات وكانك تشاهد فيلماً سينمائيا او انك وبطريقة ما دخلت الى عالم غريب تشاهد وتسمع ما يجري في عالم بطل الرواية الغامض جداً. لكن وبعد أن إنتصفت الرواية بدأت اشعر بالملل وكلما تقدمت في القرائة كانت الرواية تتحول الى عبئ يجب أن اتخلص منه بسرعة . والى أن وصلت الى النهايه كنت اتوقع أن يكون لكل ما جرى معنى لكنني اكتشفت أن النهايه كانت سيئة جداً لدرجة انني تسائلت هل كانت فعلاً هذة هي النهايه أم أن ج ...more

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Sep 13, 2013 Bsr rated it it was amazing

تخيل نفسك واقفاً أمام لوحة لـ سلفادور دالي.. تأمل عالمها السريالي الغريب، و راقب كيف يذوب الزمان كقطعة ثلج، فيتداخل الماضي مع الحاضر .. والان وبعد ان ذاب الزمان فصار كالماء..بامكانك ان تقفز داخل اللوحة و ان تبحر في عالم عجيب.

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