The story is told in the first-person voice of a guy called Toru Watanabe. The setting tells us a lot about the Japan of the 1960s and what it was like to be a grown adult (amidst the weak-willed hypocritical student revolution) in those days. It’s a coming-of-age dark romance and drama which is melancholic and strangely peaceful at the same time. It is one of the most popular books of Murakami and is set in the Japan of the 1960s during the period of student revolution. Norwegian Wood is a book which derives its name from a famous 1965 song by Beatles. I realize that I shouldn’t have done that but I had heard so much about him and his dark writing that it was difficult not to. This was my first Murakami and quite obviously, my expectations were too high. It really takes a lot of courage for me to state it here that I had never read a Murakami before this. That’s why Reiko never plays it unless I request it.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood I’m all alone and it’s cold and dark, and nobody comes to save me. “I don’t know, I guess I imagine myself wandering in a deep wood. “That song can make me feel so sad,” said Naoko.
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