Kafka on the Shore

Last night I finished reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. The book tells the story of 15 year old Kafka Tamura who runs away from home to find his mother and sister, and elderly cat-finder Nakata, still suffering from a bizarre childhood incident, who is propelled on a strange quest after a brutal, mysterious murder. In a world where cats talk to people, fish and leeches rain from the sky, a forest hides soldiers unaged since World War II, ghosts of the past haunt the present, the boundaries between past and present, life and death become increasingly blurred. It's a beguiling, dreamlike, deeply surreal book, that offers few answers to it's many mysteries. I wrote a review here: http://www.permanentlyweird.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/kafka-on-shore-by-haruki-murakami.html