{"product_id":"norwegian-wood","title":"Norwegian Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in Japan in 1987, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Haruki Murakami’s quietly affecting novel of youth, memory and loss. When a familiar Beatles song brings back the Tokyo of the late 1960s, Toru Watanabe is drawn into recollections of his university years and the people who shaped them. Still haunted by the death of his closest friend, Kizuki, Toru finds himself bound to Naoko, Kizuki’s introspective former girlfriend, whose grief has left her increasingly withdrawn from the world. At university, he also meets Midori, spirited and unconventional, whose warmth and candour offer a different possibility of love and companionship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet against the unrest and changing social atmosphere of student-era Japan, the novel follows Toru’s uncertain passage into adulthood, exploring the fragile boundaries between intimacy and solitude, desire and responsibility, life and death. More realistic and autobiographical in texture than much of Murakami’s later fiction, it reveals his gift for rendering emotional dislocation through music, landscape and the small details of everyday life. A defining novel in his career, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brought him extraordinary popularity in Japan and introduced many readers around the world to his distinctive literary sensibility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to be loved so much I could not bear it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Haruki Murakami, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This elegiac meditation on the impossibility (and terror) of love is chilling, but Murakami's true achievement lies in the humour and vision he brings to even the most despairing moments of his story.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereview \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64192529727818,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/norwegian-wood","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}