Halimat Oyegoke

I've got a lot of mixed feelings about this book. For one Kafka is clearly still a minor and his relationship with Miss Seiski can be described as "pedophilic". Of course we're given continuous hints that he's in love with her 15year old version. It still doesn't dispute the fact that a 50 yr old and a 15 year old were (quite vividly described if I may add) intimate. That in it self was enough to make me uncomfortable, then throw in the fact that she was his mother? Oh that was just really messed up! Then we have a lot of unanswered questions Why did this all happen ? What caused Nakata's accident and why did he loose his intellect ? What's Seiski relation with the entrance stone? Is Seiski really the mother? Is Kafka somehow a reincarnate of her past lover? What was the main plot? Who exactly is the boy named Crow? Was he simply a figment of his imagination, his other persona, or his subconscious mind taking a "metaphysical" form? Taking all these discrepancies, unanswered questions and knowing I probably will never get the answers to my questions, I wonder why I'm still so intrigued. But I think it's cause the book kinda forces you to love it. All the answered questions make the book endearing , coupled with the writing prowess . It's a book that's hard to love and and hard not to! A befiting metaphor for such an unconventional book.