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Norwegian Wood

Written by: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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The haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.

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

© Haruki Murakami 1987 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 20th Century Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Historical Romance Literary Fiction World Literature
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Critic Reviews

Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye
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. They are playful and melancholy; full of wrong turns and red herrings, corridors that lead nowhere and - above all - girls who disappear
A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand
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
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. Quietly compulsive and finally moving
A heart-stoppingly moving story... Murakami is, without a doubt, one of the world's finest novelists
Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around
Norwegian Wood . . . not only points to but manifests the author's genius
An intimate and dark story... A beautifully introspective novel that made me feel all the emotions
Murakami must already rank among the world's greatest living novelists
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This is the second book that i have read by Murakami - the first one was Sputnik Sweetheart which was a really big disappointment, At least this book was better than that, the story was fine, could have been a bit faster at times and overall the character scheme of the book was also just okay, I was expecting more as the story progressed. I just couldn’t relate to everything that the characters did and their reasons seemed very vague.

Murakami is not for me.

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Narration is good. Every now and then the story revolves around girls’ want of appreciation, their yearning to lay bare and flaunt their naked flesh, not always or necessarily for actual sex or reaching a climax. May be those are their attempts but have difficulties in progressing from the moments of arousal to the point of orgasmic ecstasy.
Read it if you’re melancholic, down & lonely.

May be good for a lonely & depressed young fellow.

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narration us slow n good, great voice modulated characters. A sad yet horny story with in detailed account of sex encounters, of mostly depressed souls... someone on pain may love it.. otherwise it's ok-ish

Depressivmng yet interesting

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Book dives deep into your heart and brings to live all buried memories and emotions leaving you with some tears and smiles at the same time.

Book is full of red flag characters or to say all the characters in the story are a red flag makes you wonder if that’s true IRL as well.

Also, I wish that writing a letter would still be a thing in 2020s so that our generation could express better.

The narration of audio is very good. One of the best.

Narration of the audio & the creativity of the author

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makes one wonder what the point of this book is really! the prose is fantastic, the imagery is great, but what where were we going? or was that the point of the story?

melancholy in prose

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