Norwegian Wood is set in Japan during the late 1960s/early 1970s, and follows a young man named Toru Watanabe, a university student living in Tokyo following the suicide of his only friend in high school, Kizuki. I’d heard that it was a good novel, so I figured, “What the heck, let’s see what you got, Murakami” and picked it up. I’d been wanting to become acquainted with Haruki Murakami novels for a while - 1Q84, Kafka On the Shore - and it happened that my library had a copy of Norwegian Wood. I don’t usually read books like Norwegian Wood. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.” It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I didn’t give a damn about the scenery that day. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind.
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