Although our destinations were different (Tokyo compared with Shanghai), the internal slow magical nature of Murakami’s fiction had leaked into my appreciation of my own megacity. As the narrator reminisced at the end of a journey, the painful nostalgia permeated into me as I finished my journey. The protagonist finds himself welling with emotion as his plane lands back in Tokyo and the Beatles song ‘Norwegian Wood’ transports him back to his teenage years. Norwegian Wood is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and a goldmine of writing advice. Information on buying and collecting Norwegian Wood by Jay, Murakami- Haruki/ Rubin- with a guide to first edition identification, points of issue and price. Despite the sparse writing style, he pulled me into a busy world of forlorn love-lost nostalgia.
With only the shifting landscape from my window as distraction, I plunged into Murakami’s gentle world and finished the book in one sitting. In 2014, before I had a smartphone, ‘Norwegian Wood’ was the only entertainment I had on a 21-hour train ride from the countryside city of Guilin to Shanghai in China. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual. My first experience of Murakami was in the place most people start with him, ‘Norwegian Wood’. ‘Norwegian Wood,’ nihilistic world Owen Shen argues that Haruki Murakamis popular novel should be celebrated for its existentialist themes, not merely for its status as a coming-of-age.
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