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Jesper Hauge

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Philosophy major turned web developer - and eventually manager. I enjoy novels, science biographies, popular science, cyberpunk and much more.

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Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood (Paperback, 2000, The Harvill Press) 4 stars

Review of 'Norwegian Wood' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

To me, this is a book about coming of age under very difficult emotional circumstances. It's a tale told in a simple and straightforward manner, without surreal elements like those found in other Murakami novels. It's full of sympathetic characters, trying to do the best they can do, and I suspect that this is the reason I didn't feel sad while reading it, even though there's plenty of sad events in the story. A beautiful melancholic novel well worth reading.