Kafka on the Shore, Paperback Book, By: Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore. is more than a novel. it is an invitation in itself to search for the self and embark on our own life journey, just as each of the novel's heroes embarked on his own journey, the outlines of which were drawn by fate. Kafka symbolizes the raven, which is considered one of the symbols of wisdom. This means that we can extract many lessons from between the lines of the novel. The novel Kafka on the Shore is considered a very calm novel in its events, although I think it belongs to the supernatural world, as it contains a torrent of comments and dialogues. The strange, "metaphysical", philosophical atmosphere that prevails in this novel, which introduces music, literature, philosophy, and the One Thousand and One Nights as a margin that builds the ideas of the text. The events of the novel also relate to an old man who is good at talking to cats, fish falling from the sky, soldiers living in a forest since World War II, a magic stone that may lead to the destruction of the world or its salvation. strange atmospheres abound in the masterpiece of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore." As strange as it is simple, it celebrates and defends the magic of life through two parallel, intersecting stories: the story of an old man searching for his lost half of his shadow, and a fifteen-year-old boy escaping his father's black curse. Between them are worlds, cities, characters, and semi-epic journeys that all sum up around the search for love, the meaning of death, and the value of memories. A novel that not only pushes each one of us to contemplate life, but also provokes us to change it or to change ourselves in it and begin the journey of searching for our lost compass.