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Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood - Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami "I once had a girl/ Or should I say/ She once had me." The famous Beatles' lyrics is a nice introduction to Murakami's masterpiece. Although the story is set in Japan, Murakami seems to embrace the two cultures [that is the East and the West, so to speak] and point to the fact that we all suffer. And he presents all this in such a manner, that no wonder it has been a bestseller in Japan ever since. He starts to be recognised in Europe and this is great news, Japan's one of the most talented writers deserves much more attention. Our attention. After all, we all suffer. And Murakami can tell us why this is, exactly.