Kafka On The Shore.
Written by: Hurako Murakami
This masterpiece novel is about two different characters, who are yearning for two different times (past and future). Kafka Tamura is a fifteen-year-old boy born in Tokyo who ran away from his father to discover himself through the process of consciousness and knowledge. He is a lover of the library and widely practising the quote; "secrets lie behind the libraries". in his journey, he meets with Oshima and Mis Seiski. Oshima is open-minded with a charming character and a masterclass transgender woman who finds her mystery beyond conceptualizing life and deciphering philosophical puzzles of the human beings. Mis Seiski is the head of the whole story. She has a yearning past. She is the manager of the library where Kafka makes his shelter after he ran away from his father. Seiki's story with her lover and how his death has changed the fate of Seiski is a well-performed, a masterclass memory that forcing to yearn and contemplate beyond your present time.
The second character of the novel is Nakata Sakaru. He is an old man who lost his capacity to memorise, as well as lost all his knowledge to read or to understand written characters. He is nothing more than an old man who craves to decipher the mystery that made him empty inside and forced him to listen to others. Until he later met with Johnny Walker who commanded Nakata to kill him. That incident awakened Mr Nakata, made him to search for his lost part or shadow.
So, the story is more focusing on the difference between the past and the future. Both Kafka and Nakata are looking to find their other parts from two different angles, at different times, and with different fates. However, they certainly have many things in common and that makes the story seem a complementary process.