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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
‘Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer’.
A couple of weeks ago I read Murakami's 'Norwegian wood' which centers around a young student Toru Watanabe dealing with social isolation in Tokyo, the loss of a close fiend and his connections with two young women. It's a very beautiful novel. I especially enjoyed all the little humorous, emotional or salacious side stories told by Midori and Reiko that pepper the novel alongside the main plot line. It's easy to see how this novel, which is supposedly unlike his others, captured the imagination of Japanese youth in the 'lost decade'. Anyways, I found this BBC documentary about the author and I thought I would share it here.
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