I have 1Q84 on my queue, actually. It looks like it's gonna be a real doozie, haha. But yeah, there's a lot in Kafka on the Shore that I feel is really heavily foreshadowed, if not explicitly stated. But I think that's part of why I liked it. Murakami made no qualms about the narrative devices he was using. I mean, he even talks about the Chekhov's gun concept directly in the book. The conservation of detail was very tight.
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