Kafka on the Shore is a musical ensemble of three people who molded together by chance in the great city of Milan, Italy. It is made up by Vincenzo Parisi, a classical pianist who grew up in a ...

In one of his most popular novels, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami’s protagonist — Kafka Tamura — meets a young man called Oshima, whom he describes as “pretty, rather than handsome”.

The 73-year-old author of “Kafka On the Shore,” “1Q84,” “Norwegian Wood” and a host of other bestsellers went on air late March 18 with his “Music to halt the war” show.

His enigmatic work, on existentialism’s edge, has proven especially popular in Japan, where Nobel Prize winner Haruki Murakami wrote a novel called “Kafka on the Shore.” The American writer Philip ...