Review by John Updike in the current New Yorker begins,
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “Kafka on the Shore” (translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel; Knopf; $25.95), is a real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender
"Kafka on the Shore" (Haruki Murakami)
Seeing as I've read all other Murakami books (translated), both good and not-as-good, I'll be reading this one soon as I finish Devil in the White City.
"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" (Erik Larson)
