7/2/2023 0 Comments Books like norwegian woodAn incident on Naoko’s birthday brings the two both closer together and farther apart. With this shared grief and confusion between them, Toru and Naoko begin a habit of Sunday walks through the city. In this time, he runs into a girl who shared a close mutual friend with him- a mutual friend who committed suicide a couple of years previously. In the novel, thirty-seven year-old Toru Watanabe hears a Beatles song that sends him back in memory to his first two years at college in Tokyo, 1968-1970. Or at least, one of his many intriguing titles Jay Rubin (Murakami’s English translator) states that Norwegian Wood was the book that established Murakami’s “superstardom,” so it seemed as good a place to start as any. I’ve long been meaning to read more globally, so when a friend mentioned Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood as one of her favorite books, it seemed like the time was ripe to cross a well-known Japanese author off of my want-to-read list.
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