Summary: It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the … Continue reading
… after the book, the music. So, so many musical references in Murakami’s Norwegian Wood that I couldn’t resist making a playlist to go with it. I don’t pretend that this is an exhaustive list of the songs and music mentioned in the book, and the problem putting it together on Spotify is that there aren’t … Continue reading
Résumé: 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 … Continue reading
“Hiroshima, 1947. Comment vivre normalement, comme une jeune fille, en ayant été témoin de tant d’horreur ? C’est sur cette interrogation que l’on ouvre “le Pays des Cerisiers”, récit poignant et lyrique sur la nécessité de se reconstruire et de s’apercevoir que la vie vaut quand même la peine d’être vécue…” Ce livre est vraiment … Continue reading
Tomes 1, 2 et 3 Tokyo, au début de la libération des mœurs des années 70, Kyôko et Jirô vivent en couple bien que non mariés. Elle est graphiste dans une agence de pub. Lui est illustrateur débutant. Les années 1970, le Japon est en plein transition. Nous suivons l’histoire d’un jeune couple amoureux, qui … Continue reading
Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father’s record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his … Continue reading
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