I find Murakami's writing both hauntingly beautiful and terrifyingly real. His words seem to inexorably strip away the layers of bubble-wrap that we carefully place around our hearts, revealing the fragile lump of fears, emotions, memories, and dreams that have been patched together with spidersilk-like threads of hope.Norwegian Wood is a novel that speaks to anyone who has ever experienced great tragedy, suffering or loss (i.e. all of us). It forces the reader to reflect on their own experiences without the comforting layer of frosted glass most of us are accustomed to. We see the world through the struggles of Toru Watanabe, the protagonist of the novel, which mirror the cycles of heart-rending love, passionate lust, crippling loss and deliberate repair that make up the very fabric of what it is to be human.
I interpreted the novels central theme as being this; "It's ok to be broken, we're all broken in one way another. If you can learn to recognize the scars and fractures in others for what they are, and then learn to love them, you might just be able to learn to love yourself.'
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