Norwegian Wood in Around the World

Feb 09, 2013 Paul rated it liked it · review of another edition

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On hearing a song from his college years, Toru Watanabe, remembers the girl that he first loved, Naoko. She was his best friends girlfriend, but following Kizuki's tragic early death, they have a night of passion and lust. after that she disappears from college and writes to say that she has been admitted to a sanatorium for treatment.

He stumbles around not knowing what to do, and has several one night stands when going out with an associate, Nagasawa, who even though he has a girlfriend, goes o ...more

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Oct 21, 2016 Sadiq. PhD rated it really liked it

I have Mix feelings about this book and especially, about the writer(why he is not getting the Nobel prize). The characters build slowly but are really well developed during the course of the book. Halfway between the story you will start feeling that, you are reading another Nora Robert's romantic and teenage fantasy(God!I hate her). Another thing I noticed in this book is, the writers and books mentioned in this story are actually employed in this story, I mean the author copied the style and ...more

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Nov 22, 2015 Catherine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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The book told the story of a Japanese man named Toru Watanabe who is transported back some 20 years, while listening to a Beatles song that was a favourite of his first love Naokos', to a time of uneasy freindships, casual sex, passion loss and desire.

I decided to read this book after hearing several book tubers talking about it on their channels and I am so glad I did, because it was a beautifully well written book that was almost lyrical (in places). It covered the very difficult subjects of m ...more

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