Book Review

Kafka On The Shore was my first Murakami book. Murakami has a bizarre way of writing. He binds the reader with the tale perfectly. In this book, he encloses readers in a surreal world where cats communicate and fishes tumble from the sky. He appropriates his magical capacity to blow a situation into undiscovered territories with unrealistic sangfroid.  This book has two coexisting narrative twists: one about a fifteen-year-old runaway, named  Kafka Tamura. He runs away from his home and escapes to Takamatsu. His reason to leave his home was either to escape a grim Oedipal myth or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. His father maledicts Kafka that he will kill his father and ultimately have copulation with his mother and sister. Kafka has no remembrance of his mother and sister as they left his father long ago.  During his journey to Takamatsu, Kafka meets a girl named Sakura, who is a few years older than him. He thought she could be his long-lost sister. In Takamatsu, Ka