Norwegian Wood
The release of the film tie-in edition of Murakiam’s coming-of-age cult classic of love and loss is to coincide with the new major motion picture starring Rinko Kikuchi (‘Babel’).
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Norwegian Wood Paperback ISBN: 9780099554561 Published: 01/06/2011 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 400 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP
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Norwegian Wood Paperback ISBN: 9780099448822 Published: 01/04/2003 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 400 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
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When I read a novel that I love, I often don’t go back and read the author’s previous books, preferring instead to wait for the new book to come out. I can’t really explain why but it’s a thing I do. I love William Boyd’s books for instance, but haven’t read anything published before Brazzaville Beach. With Murakami my first was South of the Border, West of the Sun - so that’s probably why I resisted...
Soundtrack to Murakami’s NORWEGIAN WOOD to be Released
by Random House Australia on 7 February 2011
Featuring original music by Radiohead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood
Editorial Reviews
"Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around" - Time Out
"Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility" - Guardian
"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
"Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love-It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed. Quietly compulsive and finally moving" - Times Literary Supplement
"A heart-stoppingly moving story-Murakami is, without a doubt, one of the world's finest novelists" - Glasgow Herald
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