Kafka on the Shore

This book is Haruki Murakami's most important novel after "Norwegian Wood", unfolded with two parallel lines in his unique style. A parallel line is the young "Tamura Kafka", in order to get rid of the curse of "you will kill your father with your own hands and have incest with your mother", he left his hometown and entered the adult world. After that, his father was killed at home, but he suspected that he killed his father in his sleep. He met an elegant 50-year-old woman in an old library, and in his dreams he had intercourse with the girlish image of this woman, who may be his biological mother. A parallel line is Nakata, an old man with amnesia, who is on the road to escape because of a bizarre murder, and with the help of the car driver Hoshino, he restores the distant memory of the war.