{"product_id":"norwegian-wood-haruki-murakami","title":"Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\nJay Rubin is the author of \u003ci\u003eInjurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e, and he edited \u003ci\u003eModern Japanese Writers\u003c\/i\u003e for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eafter the quake\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65799937720669,"sku":"K096087486","price":21.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9608748600001A.jpg?v=1788437926","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/norwegian-wood-haruki-murakami","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}