Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami, 1987
A Tokyo student is pulled between a fragile girl from his past and a loud, alive girl in his present. Memory, desire, and grief, set to Beatles songs.
Haruki Murakami
Feels like unease, memory and longing.
Start with Norwegian Wood.
Before writing full-time, Murakami ran a Tokyo jazz bar called Peter Cat for seven years, working until the early hours and writing at his kitchen table.
The face you love takes longer to summon every year.
The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute-like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness. There is no way around it: my memory is growing ever more distant from the spot where Naoko used to stand-ever more distant from the spot where my old self used to stand. And nothing but scenery, that view of the meadow in October, returns again and again to me like a symbolic scene in a movie. Each time it appears, it delivers a kick to some part of my mind. “Wake up,” it says. “I’m still here. Wake up and think about it. Think about why I’m still here.” Books by Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami, 2009
A Tokyo woman with a hidden trade, a maths teacher and a cult's story converge under two moons in a parallel 1984.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, 1994
An unemployed Tokyo househusband answers a stranger's phone call and finds his ordinary life starting to come apart.
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