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Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
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.
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Haruki Murakami'yi seviyorsanız, "Norveç Ormanı"na bayılacaksınız. Yok, daha önce okumadıysanız, bir koşu kitapçıya gidip alın. Murakami'nin en popüler kitaplarından biri ve adam yine yapmış yapacağını.
Şöyle anlatayım, kitapta Toru Watanabe var. Bu eleman Tokyo'da okuyan normal bir üniversite öğrencisi. Fakat bir anda hayatı altüst oluyor. En yakın arkadaşı intihar ediyor, sonra hayatına bir sürü garip karakter giriyor. Midori var mesela, canlı mı canlı bir kız. Bir de Naoko var, ölen arkadaşının eski sevgilisi, epeyce kırılgan biri.
Şimdi bu kitap Murakami'nin tipik işlerinden. Tuhaf olaylar, içe dönük karakterler, biraz hüzün, biraz da gizem. 1960'ların Japonyası'nda, Beatles şarkılarıyla geçen, tam gençlik dönemiyle ilgili acayip bir hikaye. Yani aşk var, kayıp var, kendini bulmaya çalışma var.
Murakami'nin tarzını zaten biliyorsunuzdur. Yazdığı şeyler tam gerçek değil, ama hayal de değil. Biraz tuhaf bir hava var hep. Rüya gibi yani. Bu kitapta da bu havayı bol bol hissediyorsunuz. Bir ara acaba Toru aklını mı kaçırıyor diyorsunuz.
Bazıları "Norveç Ormanı"nı Murakami'nin en iyi kitabı değil diyor. Ama bana kalırsa, bu kitapla tanışmak Murakami'nin dünyasını anlamak için mükemmel bir başlangıç. Okuyunca ne demek istediğimi anlayacaksınız. Ha bir de, bazı sahneler biraz açık, ona göre yani ;)
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“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life.”Wow. Reading this book was like reading an art, a masterpiece. It was my first time reading Murakami and I get why are there people who hate his work and people who absolutely love his work. And I'm one of the people who absolutely freaking loved it. The writing style is so beautiful it makes my soul happy. Reading it was like listening to a beautiful sad song that makes you nostalgic and you cry not because of sadness but because of how beautiful it is.I must wonder what the hell happened to Storm Trooper to disappear like that. Naoko also disappeared very unexpectedly. Her death was honestly a shock to me, I couldn't continue reading. I felt the same devastated emotions like Watanabe did and was happy that he didn't allow the darkness to swallow him like it did to Kizuki or Naoko. When he chooses Midori over Naoko, he basically chose to live and move on rather then be part of death.Some of the description of the women that Watanabe met might sound weird or even controversial. But it is from a adolescent man's point of view in the end.
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