We all know Haruki Murakami is an extremely skilled literary superstar. With Norwegian Wood we get more of the stunning storytelling and idyllic imagery that this Japanese author is so skilled in and beloved for delivering.Toru Watanabe is a student based in Tokyo whose complicated relationships wit...
Lovely, strange, and really captured the painful beauty of transitioning from teen to young adult. Having recently read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I was tickled to find some parallel themes and motifs in this earlier work. In contrast to the later Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood was less m...
Over the past year, I've heard a lot of really great things about Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. After having read the book, I can attest to its splendour. Though Sputnik Sweetheart is still my favourite Murakami book, Norwegian Wood is close behind. As always, Murakami's characters have a stra...
On hearing a song from his college years, Toru Watanabe, remembers the girl that he first loved, Naoko. She was his best friends girlfriend, but following Kizuki's tragic early death, they have a night of passion and lust. after that she disappears from college and writes to say that she has been ad...
I was actually in a dilemma…as to whether I should rate this book 4 or 5, reason being the cliff-hanger ending which I seriously can’t put up with but still I could not bring myself to give anything less than 5 either!! To begin with I was so curious that I actually listened to ‘Norwegian wood’ song...
Warning:Suicide Count: 4Sex Scenes: Well, I didn't count, but there were plenty, and the last one most astounding of all even more astounding than that lesbian rape scene. More on that later.Not a great way to start off a review, but it's kinder to let you know what you're in for, you know?This is t...
This is a coming of age story and a love story. It is about a man torn between two women. It's also because it is written in the first person as an extended memory, about memory and loneliness and mental illness.I like all these themes (well not so much coming of age) but it did not really do it f...
Este es el primer libro que leo de Haruki Murakami. No se porque, pero esperaba algo mas transcendental, con esto no quiero decir que el libro sea poco profundo, todo lo contrario. El problema radica en la forma en la que se cuenta la historia, de manera lenta, al punto en que, por mucho que me inte...
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