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HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949. His works of fiction include Dance Dance Dance, The Elephant Vanishes, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, South of the Border, West of the Sun, and Sputnik Sweetheart. His first work of non-fiction, Underground, is an examination of the Tokyo subway gas attack. He has translated into Japanese the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Raymond Carver. JAY RUBIN is a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He has translated Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and has completed a study entitled Haruki Also by Haruki Murakami in English translation Fiction DANCE DANCE DANCE THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD A WILD SHEEP CHASE THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN SPUTNIK SWEETHEART Non-fiction UNDERGROUND 2
Haruki Murakami NORWEGIAN WOOD Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin This e-book is not to be sold. scanned by: ditab THE HARVILL PRESS LONDON For Many Fetes 3
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Page 14 and 15: Once upon a time, many years ago -
Page 16 and 17: national anthem, too, of course. Yo
Page 18 and 19: for ashtrays held mounds of cigaret
Page 20 and 21: anything about the others myself, I
Page 22 and 23: "But that's impossible," he said ma
Page 24 and 25: Almost a year had gone by since I h
Page 26 and 27: eally wouldn't be any bother to you
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Page 30 and 31: wiper. Kizuki had left no suicide n
Page 32 and 33: Naoko called me the following Satur
Page 34 and 35: somebody in the dorm had taken down
Page 36 and 37: answers they wanted. And so I went
Page 38 and 39: hesitation. "Not exactly fashionabl
Page 40 and 41: he said. "Swallowed 'em whole." "Wh
Page 42 and 43: and while she was putting on her st
Page 44 and 45: That winter I found a part-time job
Page 46 and 47: arrived at Naoko's room the cake wa
Page 48 and 49: trying to go on, but had come up ag
Page 50 and 51: I picked up my clothes and dressed.
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at the end I added: Waiting for you
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etter. As you say, this is probably
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Maybe this firefly was on the verge
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During the summer holidays the univ
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dust covered his desk and radio. Hi
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she said. "I had a perm this summer
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omantic company? New women in far-o
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lecture. When it was over I went to
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Watanabe, I have this feeling like,
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problems far more urgent and releva
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ain." "Shouldn't you go home and ge
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expensive school trips. For instanc
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esting on her lap. "That was the pr
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you." "I'd like that," I said. Mido
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the shutter and stepped a few paces
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"Thanks," I said. It suddenly dawne
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I nodded, swallowing a mouthful of
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"You're very clear about what you l
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"I'd go and have a look around at l
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unning away." "Even if this place b
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"It's true. Don't you think I'm ter
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different from other people's. I'm
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call," I said. 'As long as lunch is
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At 11.30 Nagasawa was ready to give
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"So find a vending machine and a ni
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the events had undoubtedly happened
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this time I am very, very calm. Cle
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We eat freshly picked fruits and ve
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to the Ami Hostel. A woman receptio
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still taste my morning coffee. By t
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PRIVATE NO TRESPASSING. A few clues
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merely a nice person but whose nice
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my question. "The first thing you o
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"What should I do, then? Give me an
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I nodded. "I think the three of us
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we can ask a staff member to buy fo
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"I'm sure I'll be fine." "So, that
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With Naoko gone, I went to sleep on
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weightlessness on the secretion of
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"It's lovely, though," said Naoko.
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never plays it unless I request it.
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laughing. "How many girls has he sl
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"I couldn't get wet," she said in a
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Reiko sat alone on the carpet, play
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She picked up the basketball again,
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it in hot water, taking a few days
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I said I liked him and thought he w
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all this talk about me. You came he
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have negative thoughts about her be
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draw people - or draw me, at least
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her, outside work, or sports. She h
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est side, I'd say he succeeded. His
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anana; if we got lonely, we'd go to
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the window. She had drawn her knees
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changes to be reborn in utter perfe
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feed and a garden hose. Naoko screw
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"We'll be back before lunch." The t
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used it to make a whistle. The trai
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adios in our rooms, so if I don't c
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"It feels like ancient history," sa
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"Well, it depends how you look at i
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"She was the kind of person who too
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something inside me had died. I jus
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dining hall. "Is he a doctor or a p
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"Fine," said Reiko. "But if we keep
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most. Then I'd have her play the pi
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to go on with her story. "Well, any
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and saying "There there,' and she's
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There was nothing I could say, and
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ever experienced before, never once
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Of course. I told him everything th
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everything he could to heal me, and
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night before, Naoko was the usual N
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the way, when you went to Tokyo?" "
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her body in my hands. In the darkne
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"You see what?" "Nothing. Just "I s
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I'd make lots of babies for you as
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"Hmm ..." "And I'm just spacing out
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Midori came for me at 9.30 on Sunda
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"I don't know, I've never done it w
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like the subjunctive case and diffe
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somehow to the East India Company?'
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comes we have to treat them to sush
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Watanabe." "Glad to meet you," I sa
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"No, I guess not. It's complicated,
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"I really can't say until the time
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know if I can keep going to univers
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At 1.30 she left the hospital to do
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"After I do my laundry tomorrow mor
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ed and held it by the tip of his pe
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make people get really vicious all
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worry, I'd take care of both you an
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"Will you really take me to a porno
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stolen bases. After noon I went bac
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made myself a cup of tea with a tea
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"I do." "Look, the world is an inhe
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Eventually a waiter came and took o
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"What do you mean "that kind of tal
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"You know, Toru," she said, "I have
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"I can leave," I said. "No," said H
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of loving anybody. There's always s
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"Do you know somewhere we could pla
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"Or is it that you don't like being
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anybody's said to me in the past ye
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quadrangle. I began by telling Naok
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There was no sign of Midori at the
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I sipped my whisky and soda, then s
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open a pistachio, "the whole time I
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"You know," she said, "I have this
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"There aren't any trees around here
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early." "Wait a minute, I thought y
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"Me, too," I said. "Every once in a
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situation conducive to sexual excit
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eyond the window cast a soft white
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so painful for me to write letters.
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Thinking back on the year 1969, all
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shovelling snow when there was time
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over this, and then climbed into he
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great couple." "Yeah, right!" I sai
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I went to a phone box and dialled h
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gardeners in the area and because h
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you to one of our sessions if possi
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A letter came from Midori on 6 Apri
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eginning of October." "Whew! That c
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ago. My sister helps out there thre
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even noticed that my hairstyle had
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Saturdays and Sundays: waiting on t
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of letters like this, but from Naok
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whisky. Itoh said I could spend the
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it for you soon. I went to the univ
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"I've been really lonely these past
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you don't know the answer to someth
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eak, without a sound, soaking her h
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"But really, Watanabe, you don't wa
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her bed. I had no doubts about thos
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The fourth thing I have to say is t
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Reiko wrote to me several times aft
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nails being driven into the lid of
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The wind tore along the sand beach
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However I might phrase it, though,
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On the train out to Kichijoji, Reik
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tiny flowers in the grass, the subt
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"The jacket and trousers are hers,
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her why she was burning stuff like
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stroked her hair. "Don't worry,' I
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amount of cash. So don't worry. I w
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the point. I can't forgive myself.
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"So play it terribly." I brought ou
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myself inside her. "You're not goin
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you: you'll do fine wherever you go
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TRANSLATOR'S NOTE Haruki Murakami w
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