Kafka on the Shore

I rarely reread books, but I've been in a Murakami mood lately and was drawn back to this one, which was the second of his novels that I read, and the first really surreal one. Kafka on the Shore tells the story of a young student who runs away from his home to live in a library in the seaside city of Takamatsu, and is the closest thing to a beach read that Murakami has written. Kafka's story is interwoven with that of Nakata, an elderly man who was mentally handicapped after an accident (or attack?) he suffered as a child. I didn't fully understand the book when I first read it, and I don't fully understand it now. Themes from Greek mythology and western literature are melded with weird metaphysics and I don't even know what else to create a novel that, like all of Murakami's great works, is just as much a tone poem as a narrative story. Honestly, I find the lack of clear answers to be uniquely liberating, which I why I come back to Murakami again and again. I seriously doubt this will be my last time reading Kafka on the Shore.