A few years ago I read "What I talk about when I talk about running" which was an introduction to the wonderful world and easy writing style of Haruki Murakami. Why it has taken me so long to read more of his works I do not understand but having just finished the astounding Norwegian Wood I plan to ...
"Norwegian Wood" is a curious book. The story follows an unconventionally stable plotline, with few twists, turns, rises, falls, or denouements. This book is a journey, a linear insight into the life and growth of our melancholic main character, Toru Watanabe. Some readers will tell you that this bo...
This is supposedly the novel that made "Haruki Murakami " famous . . summary : 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 frien...
"I'm finished as a human being," she said. "All you're looking at is the lingering memory of what I used to be. The most important part of me, what used to be inside, died years ago, and I'm just functioning by auto-memory." p343
Ερωτική και ταυτόχρονα μελαγχολική πρόζα. Ομολογουμένως, έχοντας διαβάσει -και λατρέψει- ορισμένα από τα μαγικού ρεαλισμού έργα του, δε με ενθουσίασε ως μυθιστόρημα. Ο Murakami, ωστόσο, αποδεικνύει εδώ περίτρανα πως μπορεί να ασχοληθεί και με ένα ρεαλιστικό-νατουραλιστικό περιεχόμενο, με ένα πιο προ...
Norwegian Wood is not what I expected. I was looking for more of Murakami's surrealist fiction, more of his magical realism, but I got a coming-of-age love story. That in no way lessened my enjoyment. It was simply a much different experience than I was prepared for.If you have not read Murakami and...
Lovely, strange, Beautiful and Painful, Sad love story.i was really confused as to whether I should rate this book 4 or 5 !reason was that i really didn't like the ending ! but still I could not bring myself to give anything less than 5 either! for i loved the story. I actually listened to ‘Norwegia...
Lovely, strange, Beautiful and Painful, Sad love story.i was really confused as to whether I should rate this book 4 or 5 !reason was that i really didn't like the ending ! but still I could not bring myself to give anything less than 5 either! for i loved the story. I actually listened to ‘Norwegia...
Somehow, I find it troubling to find a word that accurately describe this book. Peaceful? No. Exciting? No. It's nearly impossible to do so.I keep getting the impression that Toru doesn't really love Midori, he was just using her, thinking that he really does love her while in fact he was scared of ...
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