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Why I Chose… “Norwegian Wood ” (Haruki Murakami) The question every reader both loves and dreads to answer is this one – what’s your favourite? There are never any short answers – and very often, the result is a long list. There are books which you read every summer, or every winter. The ones that remind you of being five, or fifteen, or your college years or your first love. The books we remember fondly are the ones whose lines we memorise and drop into conversation; whose characters we wish we could be like; the ones whose worlds are those we could almost step into, which strike a chord so deep we feel we’ve always known them and afterwards change our perception slightly of our own world. Norwegian Wood is one of those books. It is a bittersweet tale of looking back, of an acutely felt nostalgia for past youth and past loves. From hearing the Beatles song, “Norwegian Wood”, Toru Watanabe is reminded of his first love, Naok...
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