5/10/2023 0 Comments Norwegian wood bookLife at university, sex, student protests, music and drink in1960s Tokyo. If you remember the confusion you felt as a teenager, then this is the real setting of the book regardless of place. The size of the city seemingly as wide and vast as a teeangers in ability to talk. Fortunately, Tokyo is such a big city we could never have covered it all. And mainly we walked – and walked and walked. He and Naoko walk the streets and just talk – The university is the playground for these teenagers. Why do people do what they do? Coming of age has never been so examined before. There is a lot of inward thinking in this book and thoughts of feeling lonely, abandoned, loved and lost. First American PublicationThis stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million. This is more than a simple love story, for it’s about the human condition and human suffering. Murakami has made a quite simple tale magical through the quality of his story telling. The setting and timing of the novel are pertinent to the story since 1960s Japan was a time when students were protesting against the government and the changes within society.
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