And yet, the ending leaves you with questions that no one can answer but you, yourself.We set the target novels Norwegian Wood and Kafka On The Shore because types and themes of the two novels are different. Murakami has described this as one of his only novels to be straight and simple. You are left to your own road to make something that promises you peace. He leaves you to choose your own path for the characters to follow. Murakami has a way with leaving you with a sense of restlessness with his endings.

I started with Norwegian Wood. MurakamiвЂ™s novels and short stories have often been called unfilmable, but Norwegian Wood is his most realistic book to date, lacking talking cats, alternate realities or surreal. Yeah, it is one of those books that is bound to be there on your TBR Murakami is certainly one of those authors that every book lover seems to have read and recommends. This book was on my TBR for the longest. вЂ Norwegian Wood вЂ™ is a novel by Haruki Murakami published in 1987.

Emphases mine.The paragraph that resonated most for me due to my glaring lack of experience dealing with death:By living our lives, we nurture deathвЂ¦What I learned from NaokoвЂ™s death was this: no truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. Murakami is known for his use of magical realism and mind.I will not try to add to the large body of critical analysis I will simply post below some of my favorite grafs and sentences. For avid Murakami readers, Norwegian Wood is unlike the majority of his other novels.

By doing this, we are sharing our imperfection.вЂњSleep came and carried me into a mass of warm mud.вЂќвЂњI felt exhausted, desperate for sleep, but it simply refused to cooperate.вЂќвЂњI realize all I can put in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.вЂќвЂњMidori responded with a long, long silence вЂ” the silence of all the misty rain in the world falling on all the now-mown lawns of the world.

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