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| Title | : | Norwegian Wood |
| Author | : | Haruki Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 2000 by Vintage Books (first published September 4th 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction |
Haruki Murakami
Paperback | Pages: 296 pages Rating: 4.03 | 311878 Users | 18514 Reviews
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Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.List Books To Norwegian Wood
| Original Title: | ノルウェイの森 [Noruwei no Mori] |
| ISBN: | 0375704027 (ISBN13: 9780375704024) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Toru Watanabe, Naoko, Midori Kobayashi, Reiko Ishida, Nagasawa |
| Setting: | Tokyo,1969(Japan) Japan |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 311878 Users | 18514 ReviewsComment On Of Books Norwegian Wood
ノルウェイの森 = Noruwei no mori = Norwegian wood (1987), Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. A 37-year-old Toru Watanabe has just arrived in Hamburg, Germany. When he hears an orchestral cover of the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood", he is suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of loss and nostalgia. He thinks back to the 1960s, when so much happened that touched his life. Watanabe, his classmate Kizuki, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko are the bestI started reading this book back in February but I think timing was not right and we didnt click. I stopped after 20%, and also I thought it was weird with all its sex talk, alcoholism, and suicides. Fast forward to June and my buddy said she was reading and I had to read this, at least give it a try before finally ditching it. I wanted to have something in my defense when I tell my group of friends that why I didnt like this book (he is super popular among my friends). "But who can say what's
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Norwegian Wood ~~ Haruki MurakamiWOW ~~ what a terrific read Murakami's Norwegian Wood is! I loved this book. Even without the presence of talking cats, hollow earth monsters, and dimension shifting characters Norwegian Wood is still magical. Best of all, we still get those Murakami flourishes of The Beatles (obviously), references to THE GREAT GATSBY, a character or two with uniquely
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I revisited Norwegian Wood remembering nothing about my college year experience with it, nothing except that I loved it. And I can see why: the plot is propulsive, with Murakamis kinetic prose once again keeping me up late; the lead character is a well-realized loner archetype; the world, 1960s Japan during the student protests, glimmers in the background. There are excellent long-sequences (hospital visit, fire, sanatorium) It is salacious and often funny, well-observed:The second feature was a
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