Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami

Murakami books make such good companions that you feel left alone when you have to move on.

This time instead of writing about the story myself, I have attached the blurb from the back of the book because that is concise. And the interpretation of which isn't and insta feed would be insufficient to talk about it in detail.This is one of those books where I feel the need to reread and I am going to.

As you can see in the blurb, there is a riddle which makes this book a page turning one. The book creates a complex labyrinth that crushes the boundaries of time to let you walk through the realms of space to seek redemption or in quest of meaning of life.

What do you hear when you listen to silence?. Our memories take up all the space in our head,we all spend a lot of time in that private library of ours. Do we intend to be free? We fear to have any purpose in life because we are encapsulated in our own little world where we have believed the voices that prophesied it.

The book raises so many questions to the extent that you let your own mind get absorbed in the essence of the story to find answers. My thoughts were jumbled with interpretations that I found it hard to place it properly. In that way this book is way more challenging than the windup chronicle. The book leaves us with many unanswered questions and is open to multitude of interpretations. Probably the reason why it happens to be one of his most acclaimed work.

The book represents entities in past, present and future, all converging at various points to facilitate each others purpose. The past and future denotes escapism. Most of us are trapped somewhere in between them. It's only after the tides settle, the calmness of sea is restored.

Murakami very carefully connects the dots between the real and unreal. That is one of the reasons why I like his characters. Although bizarre and deeply flawed, they are portrayed in an empathetic way. I loved Nakata. In Murakami's world, his spirit is encouraged and there are people who value his actions.

The book really puts you on the shore with Kafka. You keep thinking about the story long after it's finished. All the while I kept yearning for sometime so that I could dwell on the happenings in the book. I don't know if there is a 'right' way to understand all that he writes or if my own is one. But once again I am bowled over by his writing , which triggered a whirlwind of thoughts that left me entranced.