![]() ![]() Yet to me, Toru resembles Nick Carraway more, circumstantially. Murakami has long been known to be heavily influenced by the American culture and is only befitting that one of his most emotionally powerful works draws on the American classic. Gatsby and Toru Watanabe, the respective ‘heroes’ of Gatsby and Norwegian Wood. ![]() Many parallels have been drawn between J. If that is not possible, please use the links on the page and support us. We encourage you to buy books from a local bookstore. I don’t think it’s a mere coincidence, I think it’s part of literature’s hidden propaganda, and I am not complaining. ![]() How is it that on the very day, you forgot to carry your umbrella, the skies decided to clear up? How is it that I, picked three books at random The Great Gatsby and Norwegian Wood, and they happened to be so interconnected to each other? And that too right after I read Catcher in the Rye, another recurring work of literature in the Murakami book. It’s a strange alchemy, how magical things tend to happen to us all the time. In the mundane rut that are our professional and domestic routines, the universe finds its way to reassure us that it’s got our backs a shuffle that plays your favourite songs, the hint that someone you like feels the same, the effortless way you and a dear friend share thoughts, a holiday on the very day you didn’t want to go to work. ![]()
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