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, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls 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.Jay Rubin is the author of Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State and Making Sense of Japanese, and he edited Modern Japanese Writers for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and after the quake.

Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye

1. 5/5

   Norwegian Wood is good

   Norwegian Wood is good. One of the best books I've read, no doubt. I love the way Murakami writes, he have a flow few can match. It's a book about life and about death. It's about friends and lovers. It's about being stuck in the past. It's about life during the end of the 60's through the eye's of a college student named Toru Watanabe and everyone he interacts with. Which isn't that many people, howvever they are interesting. Unforgettable book. "I decided that I would be able to forget about what had happened when enough time had passed, but I couldn't forget."

   Vilver-Demon

   21 januari 2022
2. 5/5

   Om du ska läsa Murakami, välj den här!

   Jag tyckte mycket om den här boken. Efter att ha läst flera böcker av Murakami kan jag tycka att han är lite tjatig, men ska man läsa någon av hans böcker tycker jag att man ska läsa den här.

   Annie

   26 juli 2017
3. 5/5

   Tips!

   Fantastiskt bra! Fin, sorglig, inkännande, egen, unik!

   Sjovis

   17 augusti 2008