Kafka on the Shore

This is the second book of Haruki Murakami that I'd read. The first one was "Norwegian Wood". I must say that Murakami san is truly a genius. His books are great. I've lost words to describe it...yes, beyond our imagination.

Look at the characters appears in this book, Kafka Tamura (Kafka in Czech means Crow), a-fifteen-year-old-boy who run away from home, to escape from his father's curse, Koichi Tamura, a sculptor who had a frightening hobby, killing cats and arranging their cut-off heads neatly in the freezer, jeez....

On his runaway journey, he arrived at Komura Memorial Library, where he met Mr. Oshima, the library assistant who declared himself having a-gender-identity-disordered, meaning he had a physically female body but his mind 's completely male. He also met the Library chief, Miss Saeki who turned out to be Kafka long missing mother.

Beside Kafka, there's also Mr. Nakata who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is able to talk to cats, therefore people claim him as a cat finder.

As their paths converge and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where fish fall from the sky and spirit slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. This book displays one of the world's great story tellers at the peak of his powers.

I read the book in English version, but actually the Indonesian version already available. Although some people complained for the book's cover, they said 'nggak banget', nevertheless the translation's good enough.

After finishing this book, one thing for sure is I really want to go quickly to Periplus and grab all Murakami's books and read them all.