Kafka on the Shore question

I totally agree, Shubham. Also, I would say that the reason why Murakami leaves so many things for open interpretation is because he's a pantser. He doesn't plan what he writes, he just follows his own imagination with a very broad idea in his mind

i think the interpretive end to the book is symbolic of the way that even after a death defying, bizarre, unimaginable journey, there still awaits another chapter of the adventure, that is just for Kafka to figure out on his own. After all, he is still a teenager and has a whole life ahead of him.
And sometimes, there isn't much sense to be made of everything, as Oshima often points out. as he says as his last advice to Kafka, listen to the wind, look at the painting. This was my favorite line perhaps, because it makes no sense and yet makes all the sense, quite like the book itself.

Before reading Kafka on the shore, I read Norwegian Wood, and found the ending quite vague, ambiguous and anti-climactic. But after re-reading the book , it made more sense to me and only added to the allure of the book.

So I guess such ambiguous, elusive endings can be attributed as a signature Murakami send- off, where the end of a book is a beginning of yet another adventure.