I got stuck at the end of the book and took me some time to finish it. It’s a story of unrequited love and longing. The characters are a part of each other's lives, but not in the way they wish. Although humans desire companionship, it often leads them to confront painful truths about the nature of human life, such as the inescapability of loneliness. The relationships in the novel evoke a sense of mournful longing and submissive acceptance of forces outside of human control.
Since I’m still trying to find my ways with Murakami’s books. With every finished one I feel like I missed something. Like there’s a message I didn’t find. But I’m beginning to accept that there’s any. It’s all just an exploration of a fleeting connection between the conscious and subconscious. And it is open to many interpretations that’s the reason it took me 2 or 3 weeks to reread the last chapter over and over again, hoping that I would finally grasp the one true meaning. I took me a while and still my feelings vary. It might be the main theme - love, the desperate need and longing is something I still can’t feel as deeply as others do. Therefore it’s no place for me to find it in Murakami’s book.