![]() ![]() Stream-of-consciousness narration plays a big part in many of his stories, making the sudden appearance of Colonel Sanders as a pimp, intense hunger pangs that lead a couple to rob a McDonald’s or a sheep-man in an abandoned hotel that much more disturbing. It’s actually hard to imagine a compelling film being adapted from Murakami’s oneiric novels or short stories, many of which dabble in fantastic post-modern images that only serve to show how alienated his protagonists are from the world around them. This is definitely not the movie Murakami fans, new or old, want, though it might be the one they expect. ![]() ![]() Too bad Norwegian Wood, a film adaptation of Murakami’s 1987 novel about a doomed love triangle, is only tepid. Thanks to the success of IQ84, celebrated Japanese writer Haruki Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase, Kafka on the Shore) has earned some time in the sun, breaking through on the New York Times best-seller list and inclusion on several prominent lists of the best novels of 2011. Norwegian Wood couldn’t have been released at a better time. ![]()
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