One of our beloved Book Club co-ordinator’s moved to Japan this month and to say farewell, book clubbers voted from a selection of books by Japanese authors. In our first ever unanimous vote, we chose Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
“Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami’s writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility” – The Guardian
Join us on Monday, 2nd September at 7pm at The Sun Tavern to discuss this beloved modern classic. Members and non-members are welcome and the event is free.