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Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss. It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo.
Sep 4, 1987 · 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.
Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye ― Daily Telegraph. Everyone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for friends and lovers... Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct and slyly, charmingly evasive.
- Haruki Murakami
Oct 10, 2011 · Norwegian Wood. Haruki Murakami. Random House, Oct 10, 2011 - Fiction - 400 pages. 'A masterly novel' New York Times'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing...
Sep 12, 2000 · Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop.
Jan 5, 2012 · Written and directed by Tran Anh Hung (“Cyclo,” “The Scent of Green Papaya”), “Norwegian Wood” is his adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s much loved 1987 novel. It belongs to the same ...
In Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, the title itself holds a significant amount of intrigue and symbolism. The phrase “Norwegian Wood” immediately evokes a sense of mystery and curiosity, leaving readers eager to uncover its meaning within the context of the novel.
Aug 11, 2010 · As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki...
Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
Jan 12, 2017 · Everyone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for friends and lovers... Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct and slyly, charmingly evasive.
