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I really enjoyed this one. Nakata's death was perhaps a bit too tidy a way of delivering him out of his legal problems, but short of having him also move through the gateway, there was not much hope for a happy end for his character. Nagata, and later Hoshino, were quite compelling characters. It really didn't come as much of a surprise when Hoshino found he had gained Nagata's ability to converse with cats. Like just about all the other "facts" we encountered in this book, it was never made clear whether Miss Saeki was Kafka's mother, or whether Sakura was his sister. I kind of doubt they were. Perhaps the best way to make sense out of everything that occurred is to assume that young Kafka was a mentally disturbed kid and that much if not most or all of his experiences had arisen from his own diseased mind, although the supernatural explanation is compelling as well. That might explain as well the author's jumping from writing the tale in the first person when Kafka was involved but switching to third person narrative form for all the other action.
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