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"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", otherwise known as simply "Norwegian Wood", is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written mainly by John Lennon, with lyrical contributions from Paul McCartney, and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership.
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. [1] The novel is a nostalgic story of loss. [2] It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo. [3]
Sep 4, 1987 · A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.
Sep 12, 2000 · A successful, 37-year-old businessman, Toru Watanabe, hears a version of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, and the music transports him back 18 years to his college days. His best friend, Kizuki, inexplicably commits suicide, after which Toru becomes first enamored, then involved with Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko.
Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye ― Daily Telegraph. Everyone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for friends and lovers... Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct and slyly, charmingly evasive.
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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Remastered 2009)Associated Performer, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar: John LennonAssociated Performer, Bass Guitar, Backgr...
The official trailer for director Anh Hung Tran's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel Norwegian Wood. The film opened in the UK on March 11, 2011, and in the US on January 6, 2012...
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Oct 10, 2011 · In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring...
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Norwegian Wood. Haruki Murakami. Vintage, 2003 - Fiction - 389 pages. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend...
Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
