The novel belongs to the genre of “bildungsroman” or “coming-of-age” constituting the psychological and spiritual growth of Kafka who is seeking answers to his mental battle. Sakura is a girl Kafka meets in his journey and she offers him a stay. Hoshino is a truck driver in his 20s who befriends and accompanies Nakata in his journey. Miss Saeki is the manager of the private library where Oshima and Kafka work. Oshima is a 21-year-old intellectual gay transgender man who is a librarian and owns a mountain cabin. The story also portrays an alter ego (that’s what I inferred) of the main character Kafka called “the crow”. The main supporting characters are Miss Saeki, Oshima, Hoshino, and Sakura. One student, Satoru Nakata, did not regain consciousness and had to be taken to. Their parallel lead stories intertwine each other at a bizarre point and the convergence is the turning point of the novel. Kafka on the Shore (2005), Haruki Murakamis tenth novel, marks a slight. The story traverses through the life stories of two protagonists, Kafka Tamura (the first name is a pseudonym, the true name is not revealed), a 15-year-old inquisitive boy, and Satoru Nakata, a peculiar old man in his 60s.
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