the first requirement: the 15-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, away from his uncaring father, the content-free existence. Mother and sister have left home so early that Kafka can not remember them. Led by an diffuse power of fate, Kafka seeks to avoid the oedipal prophecy, which he predicted his father: that he will be united with his mother and sister, killing the father, however. Kafka traveled across Japan to finally end up in a small library, which is led by the enigmatic Mrs. Saeki.
same time we follow the supposedly moronic Mr. Nakata, who can talk to cats and, apparently directed by a foreign will, unwittingly takes Kafka's track. The first lines run parallel to each other slowly, while Kafka and Nakata fulfill their destiny, stepping over the boundaries of consciousness. Since we are dealing with here is indeed Mr. Murakami, should not be surprised if it sometimes rains sardines and leeches, Johnny Walker would be killed and Kafka Tamura's much too smart anyway for a 15-year-olds.
And that brings me to the free program, because what I'm talking about really want is my fascination with the relationship of author to his hero. Oh, dear Murakami-san! No one draws his characters with so much love, warmth, and without fear of labels. Murakami affords the belief in the absolute love, he makes the simple question of the meaning of life, it affords good intentions, and he indulges in fragile, lonely, needy love characters that have the potential to own to overcome fears in favor of a higher purpose.
It is so that some reviewers call it "kitsch", because with such a full package can not handle. Others, however, love the surreal world of Haruki Murakami (probably a classic love-it-or-leave-it-thing), and it should now be no surprise that the ax is among the latter group. A novel by Murakami to be actually read more than once, because he is so rich in remarkable idea that they were not all recorded on first reading. Murakami-san has the rare ability to tell simple and profound ideas to make it accessible to every reader - a feature that I particularly guess. Books that give me new ideas, I wish much, much more often.
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