Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Mirakami

 

There are really two primary stories in the novel, though the connections are mostly kinda tenuous and some of the backstory for at least one of them is handled a little clumsily. Lots of people make all kinds of assertions which don't hold up against the events of the novel, weird things happen, all kinds of light and noise so you don't notice that on the other side of the curtain is a pretty thin bildungsroman. There's really one character who's kinda interesting and he's neither of the mains.