Norwegian Wood (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Haruki Murakami
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1968-1970
- Setting: Tokyo and a sanatorium in the mountains north of Kyoto
- Principal Characters: Toru Watanabe, Kizuki, Naoko, Midori, Reiko
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Love or romance, Suicide, Twentieth century, Death or dying, Japan or Japanese people, Tokyo
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan, Kyoto, Japan
Haruki Murakami established his reputation, in both Japanese and English, as a writer of surreal, fantastic tales of a world gone slightly awry, where a man can be spiritually possessed by a sheep (Hitsuji o meguru boken, 1982; A Wild Sheep Chase, 1989) and a hotel can contain an alternate universe (Dansu dansu dansu, 1988; Dance Dance Dance, 1994), where a man can gain access to an alternate universe by sitting at the bottom of a well (Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, 1994; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, 1997), or where a hero who inhabits alternate...
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