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From an interview of Haruki Murakami (The Japan Times, 1/12/02), on his new book "Kafka on the Shore":

Is "Kafka on the Shore," your latest novel in Japan, comparable to your last long novel, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"?

I think that it's actually connected to "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World." I wanted to write a sequel 15 years ago, but I gave up. But I feel like "Kafka on the Shore" is connected to that book on a deeper level. Two parallel stories combine in the end. The structure is similar. And the theme of both books is a story of two different worlds, consciousness and unconsciousness. Most of us are living in those two worlds, one foot in one or the other, and all of us are living on the borderline. That's my definition of human life. The title is about the borderline of land and sea, living and dead.