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	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the recordings for The "Beatles Anthology part two disc 1"; the lyrics for that version of "Norwegian Wood" sound almost slurred, which has inspired an interpretation of the phrase "norwegian wood" itself to be a coy way of saying, "knowing she would".
		Some say that "Norwegian Wood" may be a pun with a nickname of a strong variety of marijuana.
		"Norwegian Wood" was one of several songs on Rubber Soul in which the singer faces an antagonistic relationship with a woman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(This_Bird_Has_Flown) (1295 words)

	Haruki Murakami - Book Reviews
		But would certainly explain why of all his novels Norwegian Wood is in fact the most readily available, this copy having been picked up in the local branch of a chain newsagent/stationery/bookshop thingmabub which of all Murakami's novels only had this one (as did another branch which I checked after finishing the book).
		Norwegian Wood is probably Murakami's most accessible work, although the plot is both something we've heard a million times before and, well, something we haven't.
		Norwegian Wood, first published in Japan 13 years ago but only now translated for a western audience, might therefore puzzle the reader who has grown to love Murakami's haunting, melancholy surrealism: its action is resolutely realistic.
	www.murakami.ch /about_hm/bookreviews/bookreview_norwegian_wood.html (3407 words)

	Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original)
		Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university.
		I came into this novel after an obsession with Murakami's short stories, particularly the later collection After The Quake, a book whose contained ruminations on mortality, chance, loose threads, and personal awakenings were as haunting as novels ten times their lengths.
		Norwegian Wood came first, but in dealing with those themes on a grander scale, I must admit they were substantially less interesting - the airy metaphysics that gripped me before segued into characters whose motivations were blank or oblique here, and led to contrived interactions.
	www.cuppalove.com /Shopping/Details/0375704027.aspx (935 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.
		At the center of the novel, Reiko tells the long and painful story of how her life was ruined by a sexual relationship with a young and pathologically dishonest female student.
		Norwegian Wood appears to end on a happy note with Watanabe calling Midori and telling her: "All I want in the world is you.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/norwegian_wood.asp (1168 words)

	Media Indonesia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Di halaman pembuka dikisahkan seorang lelaki bernama Toru Watanabe, 37, yang terkenang pada Naoko, cinta pertamanya yang kebetulan merupakan kekasih mendiang sahabatnya Kizuki, ketika mendengar bait-bait "Norwegian Wood"--sebuah lagu terkenal milik kelompok legendaris The Beatles--yang didengarnya dalam sebuah pesawat udara.
		Novel ini juga dilatari pemberontakan mahasiswa, pergaulan bebas anak muda Tokyo, dan lagu-lagu pop 1960-an yang dinyanyikan oleh The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, serta para pemusik sezamannya.
		Norwegian Wood telah terjual hingga jutaan eksemplar di seluruh dunia.
	www.mediaindo.co.id /resensi/details.asp?id=209 (803 words)

	ipedia.com: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" is a song by The Beatles from the Rubber Soul album.
		There was also high regard for furniture made of real Norwegian wood, that is, wood from Norway, at the time The Beatles wrote the song.
		Norwegian Wood is also an annual music festival in Oslo, Norway, and the name of a novel by Haruki Murakami.
	www.ipedia.com /norwegian_wood__this_bird_has_flown_.html (423 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like the Beatles song in its title, Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is a haunting blend of memory and desire, a wistful story of growing up that becomes a complex meditation on the fragility of love and life.
		Murasaki aims for the moon in Norwegian Wood, and he hits it pretty squarely, delivering a richly reflective novel that, like most great love stories, is a story of both dying young and the death of youth.
		Norwegian Wood is a novel of yearning, and it’s gem.
	www.free-times.com /Reviews/norwegian.html (822 words)

	J - A - M
		Norwegian Wood (the title refers to a Beatles song of the same name) amazes me. Although it was the book that transformed Murakami from a famous Japanese author into an international literary superstar I had never heard of it.
		The hero of the novel is a young teacher who is in love with a young writer who falls in love with a businesswoman who she ends up working for.
		Norwegian Wood is excellent but isn't as representative of the majority of his work.
	kallisti-jam.blogspot.com (5599 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Norwegian Wood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Norwegian Wood Murakami, best known as the author of off-kilter classics such as the Wind Up Bird Chronicle, A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard Boiled Wonderland, finally achieved widespread acclaim in his native Japan.
		The novel is atypical for Murakami: seemingly autobiographical, in the tradition of many Japanese "I" novels, Norwegian Wood is a simple coming of age tale set, primarily, in 1969/70, the time of Murakami's own university years.
		Norwegian Wood was hugely popular in Japan and perhaps the reason I do not 'feel' this book is because of the translation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860468004 (1766 words)

	Book Review - Norwegian Wood
		But Norwegian Wood welds the usual array of Murakami-isms -- a hero living the life of stoic desperation, chatty oddballs adept at expressing their tumultuous inner lives, calamities and absurdities related in deadpan tones -- to a sturdy story which doesn't skimp on characterization.
		Despite the near-banality of its plot, Norwegian Wood tends to linger in the memory.
		Undercurrents of sadness and yearning are present in all of Murakami's works, but they find their full flower here in the person of this novel's narrator, who remains rootless and beaten down in the present day despite his tale of hope reborn.
	www.holin.us /writings/norwegian.htm (562 words)

	Norwegian Wood - Murakami Haruki
		Norwegian Wood was previously translated into English (by Alfred Birnbaum, 1989) in an edition published by Kodansha and intended solely for sale in Japan.
		Norwegian Wood is a fairly early work by Murakami, first published in Japan in 1987.
		The novel begins with a brief introductory chapter in which the 37 year old narrator, Toru Watanabe, once again hears the song, a "sweet orchestral cover version" this time.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/murakamih/norwood.htm (2049 words)

	PULP : : New Japanese Pop Culture Monthly : : 4.09 Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Norwegian Wood is clearly aimed at a Japanese audience, embracing archetypes of doomed love and suicidal youths one can trace from The Tale of Genji to present-day soap operas.
		But Norwegian Wood welds the usual array of Murakami-isms–a hero living the life of stoic desperation, chatty oddballs adept at expressing their tumultuous inner lives, calamities and absurdities related in deadpan tones–to a sturdy story which doesn't skimp on characterization.
		Undercurrents of sadness and yearning are present in all of Murakami's works, but they find their full flower here in the person of this novel's narrator, who remains rudderless and beaten down in the present day despite his tale of hope reborn.
	www.pulp-mag.com /archives/4.09/reviews_books.shtml (637 words)

	Amazon.com: Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. Salamanca's classic 1964 novel, LilithAthe tale of a young man's involvement with a schizophrenic girl.
		In reviews and on websites, I had read over and over about Norwegian Wood, the "straightforward" novel that was published years ago in Japan, which still was not for sale in the states, since there was not an authorized translation available.
		As far as Murakami is concerned, Norwegian Wood provides the answer to the question what would happen if he would keep the sheep and the elephants in the barn and stay out of deep wells.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375704027?v=glance (2324 words)

	Norwegian Wood immerses reader - The Daily Free Press - Muse
		Wading through the awkward and careless translation of Haruki Murakami’s novel, “Norwegian Wood,” is a more difficult process, but the resemblance between the two same-named works in terms of atmosphere, originality and story brings disrepute to neither of the authors.
		Protagonist and narrator Toru Watanabe describes the world as he knows it, without the omnipotent deus ex machina around to fix things: “A bunch of different people appear, and they’ve all got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own brand of justice or happiness.
		While there was certainly a thesaurus of ways to avoid the plague of “tiny voices,” a term used exhaustively in the book, the killer end notes (“Because Naoko never loved me,” or “It was the last time I ever saw her”) were probably Murakami’s bad idea.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/news/2000/11/02/Muse/Norwegian.Wood.Immerses.Reader-7656.shtml (486 words)

	Murakami’s book filled with nostalgia
		The novel begins with a grown Toru, thirty-seven years old and in a German airport, "just feeling kind of blue." This melancholic feeling paces the entire novel and one can't help but feel that Toru will never know any other feeling.
		Like Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Norwegian Wood is, first and foremost, a coming-of-age novel, its main character dancing in a school setting and dealing with young-adult issues, just like the infamous Holden Caulfield.
		Murakami's characters will haunt readers for weeks after the completion of Norwegian Wood, their stories penetrating the everyday like the memory of a fabled and deceased grandfather.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V142/N08/04-murakami.08d.html (785 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Translating Murakami
		Before Norwegian Wood, it was a very cosy position I had.
		The outsider mentality pervades his novels, which have ironically propelled him to a position very much in the center of all things literary.
		Rubin is currently translating Murakami’s latest novel, “After Dark.” Their professional relationship has turned into a friendship over the course of fifteen years.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=509594 (1634 words)

	Amazon.ca: Norwegian Wood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So "Norwegian Wood" is a love story set against a larger theme of questioning the Establishment.
		Norwegian Wood is a coming of age tale set in Tokyo circa the 1960s.
		Norwegian Wood tells the story of Toru, a 20-ish University student living in Tokyo.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375704027 (1391 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Norwegian Wood at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murakami's most accessible novel, Norwegian Wood is a great place to start in his oeuvre for hesitant Western readers.
		One of the novel's major themes, and definitely its most powerful, is the notion, often repeated by the characters themselves, that "death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life." Watanabe appears to have the Midas touch; only when he comes in contact with people, they don't turn to gold, they die.
		The bulk of the novel (and here is where I'll talk as much about the narrative as it will allow me -- you'll soon how little that means) is taken up by Watanabe's relationships with two of these weird and twisted characters.
	www.epinions.com /content_73308278404 (1135 words)

	village voice > books > Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood by Daniel Handler
		For American readers the book is as much a novel as it is a glimpse of his other novels, since the threads Murakami takes up in
		Like your first big love, Norwegian Wood feels bigger than it is. The novel's '60s setting—leftist student protests are gurgling in the background—tempts one to place a political credo over our hero's maturation, but the book is less about a revolution than our temptation to find one in a novel set in the '60s.
		Despite their antimetaphoric value, however—or, perhaps, because of it—the orbitals of the novel make up a surprising and organic world.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0039/handler.php (836 words)

	Norwegian Wood
		Set in Tokyo in the late sixties, Norwegian Wood explores the life of Toru Watanabe, a solitary and anguished young student, as he struggles to find himself, to recover from the suicide of his best friend, and to choose between the two women he loves, Naoko and Midori.
		His choice, and the tragic conclusion to Naoko's suffering that follows it, impel Watanabe into a period of desperate wandering, from which he returns with a deeper self-understanding and a firm resolve to begin his life anew.
		An elegiac novel that explores the aftermath of suicide, mental illness, and death, Norwegian Wood is also a sharply observed and often hilarious commentary on Japanese society and university life during a time of widespread student activism and protest.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/norwegianwood (1348 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Norweigan Wood, 09-12-00
		But while bestsellerdom is an unreliable sign of elegant prose, the newly-translated "Norwegian Wood" is an exception: a well-structured tale of vivid characters responding to misfortune in the Tokyo environs at the end of the '60s.
		Each of the novel's college-age characters faces the question of "Which of these two lovers do I love the most?" Toru Watanabe, the narrator and protagonist, doesn't know for sure which flaws, virtues, habits and interests are reliably his own.
		Sadly, he's not as good at writing such ramblings as Thomas Mann is in "The Magic Mountain" (which is also mentioned several times in "Norwegian Wood"), or, a bit lower on the evolutionary chain but also with similar characters and themes, "Ordinary People" by Judith Guest.
	www.flakmag.com /books/wood.html (389 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Books \| The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel
		Though a self-declared “bit of fluff” the novel has all the necessary elements that fans of such fiction will be hoping for: a suitably convoluted plot involving volcanoes and kidnapped scientists and lashings of pleasing period references.
		Gatiss’ has previously published a series of Doctor Who novels and a few sci-fi elements creep into the latter stages of the narrative — like the helmeted guards who patrol the villain’s lair and are impervious to pain.
		There’s also talk of the book being turned into a graphic novel and this may well prove to be the best format for this particular adventure.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=736 (752 words)

	hackwriters.com - Haruki Murakami Profile - Sam North
		Last June in the UK ‘Norwegian Wood ’ and ‘Underground’ were released and a revised version of ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ issued.
		Anticipation is the key to his work and ‘Norwegian Wood’ is no exception.
		Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is fantastic, in it’s true sense, an exotic fish in a dark sea.
	www.hackwriters.com /murakami.htm (2100 words)

	Porn activists go all the way to save the rainforest \| By Lissa Harris \| Grist Magazine \| Main Dish \| 05 Oct 2004
		Leona Johansson, 21, and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, 28, are a new breed of environmentalists -- or perhaps a new breed of porn stars.
		Novel approaches to fund raising and activism should be welcome, and youth (especially in Europe, sheesh) are a lot more comfortable with sexual expression than are the green geezers that run many of the mainstream environmentalist groups."
		If you've ponied up the monthly fee, you can access the membership-only content, where you can witness all kinds of debauchery: from plein-air romps involving novel uses for corn on the cob to the uniquely Scandinavian spectacle of a naughty Euro-hippie hiking up her skirt at Ikea.
	www.grist.org /news/maindish/2004/10/05/harris-naked (1731 words)

	BookBlog: Norwegian Wood
		As another example, I don't think the novel would have read as well if it had been Elvis that they were all into.
		I think Norwegian Wood, the song, is supposed to be a metaphor for Naoko's life.
		I think the song (and all Beatles' songs that appear in the novel) is Toru's attempt to define his life and the people in it.
	www.bookblog.net /bbarchives/000284.html (3096 words)

	The Phoenix Online - “Norwegian Wood” a wandering romance
		Overseas, he is a critical favorite for novels whose genre might be called metaphysical detective sci-fi straight-faced absurdist.
		The novel follows the early adulthood of introspective college student Toru Watanabe as he struggles through disaffection and towards emotional attachment in 1960s Japan.
		But the simple and unexplained tragedies near the heart of the story are allowed to stand on their own, and the novel is better for it; Murakami’s usual representation of chaos through the surreal would be inappropriate in a story this quiet and self-contained.
	phoenix.swarthmore.edu /2005-09-22/living/15380 (901 words)

	Bookreporter.com - KAFKA ON THE SHORE by Haruki Murakami
		Throughout their journeys (if indeed the journeys are separate and not in fact the same journey), both Nakata and Kafka are helped by various characters, and each must confront painful and confusing realities in order to complete the nameless mission they seem compelled to undertake.
		Without the dark paranoia of Franz Kafka's work, Murakami's novel does share some characteristics with it, such as a horrible father/son relationship, a feeling of a secret and closed other world, and a life full of riddles.
		Murakami's novel is successful in so many ways (despite some slowness toward the middle section of the book) and surely must be the type of story Kafka had in mind when he imagined books as axes, destroying the cold parts of our hearts and souls to allow in warmth.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400043662.asp (780 words)

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