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Summer Reading Session: Norwegian Wood
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19:00 UTC · 75 minutes
Quiet reading and conversation around Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood.
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Literary Romance
Norwegian Wood
Fiction · RomancePublished 1987Asia
Hearing a Beatles song years later, Toru Watanabe is carried back to his student days in Tokyo and to two very different young women.
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ON THE READING TABLE
Murakami at his most direct, and most tender
Without the surreal turns of his other work, Norwegian Wood shows how precisely Murakami can write grief, desire and youth.
It is a novel of atmosphere — records, rain, dormitory rooms — and of the people we cannot save.
A gentle entry point for readers new to Japanese fiction.
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