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I have read this book quite a few times. I also with a dear friend heard it on videotape, the voices are just great. But do I get all the connections by now? No, I don't. If anyone is here can you decode Nakata's relation the Miss Saiki or even Nakata's entrance stone which Miss Seiki address in chapter 42.
Monty I think, if you start looking at this book as less of a riddle, you will be able to enjoy it more.
It is in the author's style to leave a lot of things…moreI think, if you start looking at this book as less of a riddle, you will be able to enjoy it more.
It is in the author's style to leave a lot of things ambiguous and open for interpretations. There might not be a right or wrong answer here. For eg. Miss Saeki neither confirms or denies Kafka's hypothesis, and later goes on to tell him that he was the same boy on the bench. Hence, as long as there is no counter evidence to refute either of those hypothesis, both are true for the individuals in question i.e. For Miss Saeki, Kafka is her long lost lover, and for Kafka, she is her long lost mother.

And, according to me, this is what makes the author's style more intriguing, not the plausibility of individual literary objects/allegories, but the fluidity of the overall story.(less)
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by Haruki Murakami
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