When you are reading any of the Haruki Murakami books, you need to be ready for all the weird things that happen between the story. Also, the story of this book becomes a lot more hard to understand if you are reading it with a narrow mind. So, my suggestion is you have to stop questioning about the events in this book and simply go with the flow.

It is a 2002 Japanese novel which was translated in English by Philip Gabriel. It received the World Fantasy Award for 2006.

This is the first magical realism book that I've read. A lot more people misunderstand magical realism with fantasy which in my opinion is noy true. Fantasy genre revolves around the whole magical setting and the characters itself are sort of magical while in magical realism - as the name suggests - have perfectly normal characters but there is a hint of magic in them.

The one thing that I love about in this book is its writing style and how their is kind of poetry in them. Obviously, a lot of focus is spent on the details in any of Murakami's books and this book is no different. The lines itself  are so beautiful that you simply fall in love with them.

When I first met you, I felt kind of contradiction in you. You are seeking something but at the same time, you are running away from all you're worth.

To be honest, there is no point in telling you the story, because it'll not make sense to you anyway. Strange things always happen in this book like fish and leeches falling from the sky, a ghost of a girl comes but she is still alive and many more.

There are two protagonists in this book: Kafka Tamura who runs away from his home on his 15th birthday and Nakata, an old man who is sort of mentally weak and dumb and cannot read and write since a weird accident happens during his childhood but has an ability to talk with cats. It's amazing how their lives are connected to each other but they never meet in the story.The boy named Kafka is an introvert but meets some people with whom he feels connected like Oshima and Miss Saeki.

It's also great how this book talks a lot about books and music. Go and give it a try!!!

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