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  BOOK REVIEW KAFKA ON THE SHORE “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own hearts we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in the fresh air, and change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”  Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. It is the story of a 15-year-old runaway, Kafka who runs away from home to escape from his father’s oedipal prophecy. Kafka’s journey is filled with books and vivid interpretations of music. Nakata, an old man, the tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life sudde