Haruki Murakami

Broschiertes Buch

Norwegian Wood

Beschreibung

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'A masterly novel' New York Times

'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' Guardian

Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.

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.

'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out

'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith' Sunday Times

'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

Autor

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Originaltitel: Noruwei no mori
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 679275
• Seitenzahl: 389
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780099448822
• ISBN-10: 0099448823
• Artikelnr.: 09350502

Rezensionen

Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye Daily Telegraph

A masterly novel.... Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami s hand. The New York Times Book Review

Norwegian Wood ... not only points to but manifests the author s genius. Chicago Tribune

[A] treat ... Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done. The Baltimore Sun

Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels. Los Angeles Times Book Review