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Norwegian Wood

  • 村上春樹

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As his plane lands at a European airport, thirty-seven-year-old Toru Watanabe casually hears an old Beatles song. Suddenly, the music transports him back to his youth, to the turbulent Tokyo of the late sixties. He then remembers, with melancholy and unease, the unstable and mysterious Naoko, the girlfriend of his best—and only—friend from adolescence, Kizuki, and how Kizuki's suicide distanced them for a year until they reunited at university. There, they began an intimate relationship, which was soon cut short by Naoko’s fragile mental health, leading to her admission to a rest center. Shortly afterward, Watanabe fell in love with Midori, a lively and determined young woman. Indecisive and plagued by fears, Watanabe experienced only bewilderment and disillusionment in the very areas where everything was supposed to make sense: sex, love, and death. The unbearable situation led him to seek a delicate balance between his hopes and the need to find his place in the world.

Mientras su avión aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, de treinta y siete años, escucha casualmente una vieja canción de los Beatles: de pronto, la música le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de finales de los sesenta. Recuerda entonces, con melancolía y desasosiego, a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor -y único- amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki, y cómo el suicidio de éste les distanció durante un año, hasta que se reencontraron en la universidad. Iniciaron allí una relación íntima, truncada, sin embargo, por la frágil salud mental de Naoko, a quien hubo que internar en un centro de reposo. Al poco, Watanabe se enamoró de Midori, una joven activa y resuelta. Indeciso, acosado por los temores, Watanabe sólo experimentaba el deslumbramiento y el desengaño allá donde todo debía cobrar sentido: el sexo, el amor y la muerte. La insostenible situación le llevó entonces a intentar alcanzar el delicado equilibrio entre sus esperanzas y la necesidad de encontrar su lugar en el mundo.

Genres

  • Student
  • Theaterwissenschaft
  • Liebesbeziehung
  • Belletristische Darstellung
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • College students
  • Fiction
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Young men
  • Fiction, romance, contemporary
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  • 村上春樹

    born 12 January 1949

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Editions

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    Van In

    2012

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    Einaudi

    2013

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    Einaudi

    Mar 19, 2013

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    1 edition

    Objetiva

    2005

  • Japan, fiction
  • Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Chinese fiction
  • Chang pian xiao shuo
  • Japanese fiction
  • Translations into Chinese
  • Translations into Russian
  • College students in fiction
  • Nineteen sixties
  • Xiao shuo
  • Language and languages
  • Translations into English
  • Roman japonais
  • Années soixante (Vingtième siècle)
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Tokyo (japan), fiction
  • Étudiants
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    Alfaguara

    Jan 01, 2008

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    Penguin Random House

    2022

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    Mineumsa

    Sep 02, 2013

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    Vintage Books

    Aug 26, 2000

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    Vintage Books

    Aug 26, 2016

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    Vintage

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    Vintage Books

    Aug 26, 2003

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    Aug 26, 2006

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    The Harvill Press

    Aug 26, 2000

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    Naxos AudioBooks

    Mar 01, 2006

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    Btb Bei Goldmann

    February 1, 2003

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    DUMONT Literatur und Kunst Verlag

    January 1, 2001

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    10-18

    2009

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    Chu ban

    Shanghai yi wen chu ban she

    2007

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    Shanghai yi wen chu ban she

    Sep 08, 2001

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    Di 2 ban.

    Li jiang chu ban she

    1999

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    Maxi-Tusquets

    Oct 27, 2020

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    Maxi-Tusquets

    Oct 27, 2020

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    Tusquets, TUSQUETS

    2016

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    Tusquets USA Pub, Tusquets

    June 30, 2005

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    Perfection Learning

    Sep 12, 2000

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    Seuil

    February 14, 2003

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    Seuil

    March 1, 1999

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    Vintage Books USA, Vintage

    Jan 25, 2011

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    Kōdansha, 講談社

    1987

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    Vintage Books

    2012

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    Kōdansha

    1987

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    Vintage, Vintage International

    2000

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    Vintage

    2003

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    Varrak

    2015

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    New Ed edition

    The Harvill Press

    2001

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    1st ed

    Kodansha International

    1989

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    Vintage

    September 12, 2000

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    Vintage Books

    2003

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    Einaudi

    2009

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    Vintage Books

    2003

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    Random House Export

    Nov 01, 2010

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    Muza

    Jan 01, 2013

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    Penguin Random House

    2011

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    1st edition

    Shi Bao

    2003

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    ĖKSMO

    2003

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    Eksmo

    2005

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    Kodansha

    1987

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    2 ban

    Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si

    2003

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    Bo yi chu ban ji tuan you xian gong si

    1991

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    Tandem Library

    September 2000