Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
|---|---|
| Published | 1987 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The realist novel on Murakami’s shelf — no vanishing cats, no parallel worlds. Toru Watanabe narrates his student years in late-1960s Tokyo and the two women who pulled him in opposite directions; it made Murakami famous at home and is the book most often handed to people who have never read him. |
Norwegian Wood
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Fantasy section under a Murakami author entry naming four works; they call him the master of “weird, surreal, and very relatable coming-of-age stories.” This is the entry-point volume of the four, and the least fantastical.
- In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide, 2016) — the archive of his monthly book-club recommendations, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide).
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from; Fantasy section, Murakami author entry.
- Haruki Murakami — the author.
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — the next of the four selected works, and where the surrealism takes over.
- Kafka on the Shore — third of the four.
- 1Q84 — fourth of the four.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates the list.
What links here
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