"Next door was a shop where a middle-aged, sleepy-eyed guy sold "adult toys." I couldn't imagine why anyone would want the kind of sex paraphernalia he had there, but he seemed to do a lot of business. In the alley diagonally across the from the record store I saw a drunken student vomiting. In the games centre across from us at another angle, the cook from a local eatery was killing his break time with a game of bingo that took cash bets. Beneath the eaves of a shop that had closed for the night, a dark-faced homeless guy was crouching, motionless. [....] Every fifteen minutes or so I would hear the siren of an ambulance or cop car. Three drunken company employees in suits and ties came by, laughing at the tops of their voices every time they yelled "Piece of ass!" at a pretty, long-haired girl in a telephone booth. The more I watched, the more mixed-up my head became. What the hell was this all about? I wondered. What could it possibly mean?"
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Norwegian Wood (novel)
Norwegian Wood (, 1987) by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin is a Japanese novel focused on the theme of relationships. It was the author's first mainstream success in his native land, and one of the most popular translated Japanese novels in the Western Hemisphere. It is narrated by the character of Toru Watanabe.
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