Norwegian Wood

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Haruki Murakami

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. 'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out 'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' Guardian 'This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows' Independent on Sunday 'Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed' Times Literary Supplement 'A heart-stoppingly moving story... Murakami is, without a doubt, one of the world's finest novelists' Glasgow Herald

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Author

Haruki Murakami

Pages

389

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

2003

ISBN

0099448823 9780099448822

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"Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami What sets Murakami apart is his writing style. There is a swarm of writers Murakami will be recognized in this swarm, because of his writing style. Norwegian Wood isn't a miracle, it's not like Murakami came up with a very out-of-the-box plot. But the ease, with which he writes about ordinary events, he puts himself in them. In this book Murakami has presented his perspective regarding death. He has told that death is an ultimate reality. It is very common for people to die. People keep dying. But life should be going.. Some very simple scenes that are written to tell about Midori's chores at home, the scenes written in relation to the sanitarium are very interesting, in their simplicity of course. After finishing the book, I started missing Reiko's guitar."

Ujjwal Gupta

"I do not understand the hype around this book. I hated it from start to finish."

Sue K.

"This was such a rollercoaster"

Shantanu Kudva

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