not only points to but manifests the author's genius * Chicago Tribune *Īn intimate and dark story. Murakami is, without a doubt, one of the world's finest novelists * Glasgow Herald *Įvocative, entertaining, sexy and funny but then Murakami is one of the best writers around * Time Out * Quietly compulsive and finally moving * Times Literary Supplement *Ī heart-stoppingly moving story.
It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed. 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 *Ĭatches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love. I once had a girl / Or should I say, she once had me, go the opening lines of Norwegian Wood, the Beatles song. Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand * The New York Times Book Review * They are playful and melancholy full of wrong turns and red herrings, corridors that lead nowhere and - above all - girls who disappear * Guardian *Ī masterly novel. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 4.03 avg. Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct and slyly, charmingly evasive. Who is Marian Why did Marian love this book The Master of Go.
From the list on a sweet journey into Japan. Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye * Daily Telegraph *Įveryone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for friends and lovers. 10 books like Norwegian Wood Convenience Store Woman.
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