Book Of The Month for October was Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. For online Book Clubbers there are some questions below for you to get involved with. Either answer in the comments section or use as discussion points at your next Book Club. If you haven’t read the book check out the Lowdown all about it here.
Norwegian Wood – the blurb
When he hears her favorite 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.
Discussion Points
The following are written with the presumption you have read Norwegian Wood. If you haven’t, bookmark the post and come back to answer the questions later.
- First of all have you ever listened to the Beatles Norwegian Wood? If not go and listen!
- Apart from the Norwegian Wood reference how else is music a theme in the book?
- Catcher in the Rye is mentioned a few times in the book. Have you read it? How similar are the male protagonists in the two books?
- What attracted Watanabe to Naoko? What keeps pulling him back to her?
- Did you like Watanabe? Did your feelings about him change as you progressed through the book?
Get Involved
Feel free to answer as many of the questions as you want. Post your replies below, discuss with us on social media using @BookSocialUK, or pose some questions of your own. If you enjoyed the questions, have a go at last month’s Get Involved: How To Kill Your Family.
