Book Review: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Rating: 3.5/5★ This novel follows Toru Watanabe, and begins with him on a plane journey to Germany where he hears the Beatles song 'Norwegian Wood' and he subsequently recounts his teenage years. The novel itself reads like a whimsical dream sequence, placing itself firmly on the border between plausibility and impossibility. I couldn't help but draw parallels to Woolf, and the idea of a stream of consciousness form of writing. The book was recommended by one of my teachers, and so I didn't exactly know what to expect, but after reading it I can't lie, there was some degree of confusion. There were a few pressing questions that I was left with after it ended but I also couldn't help but admire the patterns and the significance of certain things in the novel that carried on throughout. The most prominent of these is the significance of the number 4. There are 4 suicides in total: Kizuki's suicide, Naoko's sisters suicide, Hatsumi's ...