Since reading Kafka on the Shore, I couldn't stop thinking about the book, so recently I went and bought another one by Murakami. I picked The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel because it's the novel that made Murakami famous in the US. This book is considerably longer and thicker than Kafka and more convoluted. It resolves a bit more but not a huge lot. There were bits that were common to both novels but that didn't bother me. I feel like maybe if I read more of his work, I might get closer to solving the puzzle of his stories. I now have to go buy all of his books. Easy to read, difficult to understand.