Book – kafka On The Shore.

The whole story revolves around two completely different characters, Kafka Tamura and Nakata Sataru and therefore the characters they found in their journey.

Kafka on the Shore demonstrates Murakami’s typical blend of popular culture, mundane detail, magical realism, suspense, humor, an involved plot, and potent sexuality. It also features an increased emphasis on Japanese religious traditions.

Kafka Tamura a 15 year old runaway bearing a forbidden curse given by his late father and painful memories. Kafka’s character is unlike the other fifteen year old kid features a strange touch of complexity and it certainly is deep growing over time. The second character Nakata Sataru an old man who doesn’t have any clue about his past checking out coming future. Nakata, a dumb yet smart his character itself is sort of a paradox, which may only be dumb if he’s smart and only be smart if he’s dumb. Which is totally different from kafka who bears an easy perspective about things. Nakata’s ability to look at things during a strangely simple perspective is what makes the characters strong and firm as a ancient fence .

Both characters goal and life is totally different yet at an equivalent time similar at certain point of your time . It’s like 2 different ends of same thread. One looking back at his past while deed from it while another being careless of his past heading for completing a search which is to shut the doorway of the alternate reality. One is overly smart and hooked in to books along side other things while another doesn’t even knows the characters in his name.

In the book both characters encounter some potential person’s which makes the story interesting.the first person was a boy named crow which is nothing quite a illusion made by kafka in his mind. The person he meet on the bus while he was deed from his home. Later when he visited a personal library in takamatsu he found another person Oshima, a transgender character who supported Kafka throughout the book may be a nicely forged character. his perspective on LGBT community is sort of impressive and he check out things metaphorically which is totally at another level. it is a character which is somewhat neutral at it’s own axis. Then comes Mrs. Saeki. To be honest you’ll fell for her head over heels for her. She’s the central a part of the story. she’s the manager of the private library where oshima works and kafka live throughout most of the novel. Her character is that of a broken but charming woman. She was the one who opened the doorway to the alternate reality so as to guard herself from harsh reality but it seems that it just made her trapped in her own damned reality. The more you study her the more you crave for her past.

Mr. Hoshino is another character who helps nakata in completing his quest. it isn’t like they need been friends from over an extended time but they both meet one another when nakata decides to travel into his quest. Later Mr. Hoshino find nakata a stimulating person and a small resemblance to his grandfather. Which is why he decides to assist out the old man in his quest and he seems to a crucial key during this whole book.
The whole story swings back and forth between the particular reality and therefore the alternate reality where time is simply a mere concept and memories are just a bunch of obsolete things.
in this book Murakami’s 

literary genre is simply like taking note of a musical sonata, where the sounds of musical instruments bind together at some extent and every one of sudden it alter,break apart into one peak and therefore the process itself goes on and on. The very scale of rising and down with each passing moment never cease to amaze you. In here rather than musical instruments the complex yet simplicity of every and each character is what makes the entire composition exotically attractive.