挪威的森林 norwegian wood.pptx

Norwegian Wood;Haruki Murakami （Murakami Haruki）, born January 12, 1949) is a best-selling Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award (2006), while his whole oeuvre garnered the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009), among others. Murakami has also translated a number of English works to Japanese. His notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–2010).;Toru Watanabe is a quiet and serious young man in 1960s Tokyo whose personal life is in tumult, having lost his best friend Kizuki after he inexplicably commits suicide. Seeking an escape, Toru enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, during a walk in a park, Toru meets Kizukis ex-girlfriend Naoko, and they grow close. Naoko continues to be devastated by the loss of Kizuki and spirals into a deep depression.;The protagonist and narrator. He is a Tokyo college student of average ability, majoring in drama without reason or conviction for doing so. Unlike most students, he is interested in Western, and in particular, American literature. He is Kizukis best friend, and develops romantic relationships with Naoko and, later, Midori.;A beautiful but emotionally fragile woman who is Kizukis girlfriend, but becomes involved with Watanabe after Kizukis death. Naokos older sister took her own life at age 17, which, along with Kizukis suicide, has a lasting effect on Naokos emotional stability.;A vivacious, outgoing classmate of Watanabe. She and her sister help their absent father run a small bookstore after her mothers death from brain cancer. She originally had a boyfriend but develops feelings for Watanabe as she gets to know him more, putting Watanabe in a tough situation.;Asian Film Awards 2011 Won