Norwegian Wood was hugely popular with Japanese youth and made Murakami something of a superstar in his native country (apparently much to his dismay at the time). The story was subsequently included in the collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Murakami adapted the first section of the novel from an earlier short story, 'Firefly'. While it serves as the backdrop against which the events of the novel unfold, Murakami (through the eyes of Watanabe and Midori) portrays the student movement as largely weak-willed and hypocritical. This novel is set in late 1960s Tokyo during a period when Japanese students, like those of many other nations, were protesting against the established order. Through Watanabe's reminiscences, readers see him develop relationships with two very different women-the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively Midori. It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and burgeoning sexuality. “So then I’d give him all the love he deserves for what he’s done.Norwegian Wood ( ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori ) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?” To make it up to you, I’ll go out and buy you something else. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit.

What a fool I have been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. “Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?” There are time in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.”

“I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,” I said with some amazement. And I say I don’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me.

And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. “I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. “I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - fifth or sixth grade - but I made up my mind once and for all.”

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