FICTION KAFKA ON THE SHORE By Haruki Murakami. Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95. This graceful and dreamily cerebral novel, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, tells two stories -- that of a boy fleeing an Oedipal prophecy, and that of a witless old man who can talk to cats -- and is the work of a powerfully confident writer. ON BEAUTY By Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, $25.95. In her vibrant new b
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