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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Norwegian Wood sold more than 4 million copies in Japan—all the more remarkable when one considers that the population of the country was approximately 120 million when Haruki Mura- kami's breakthrough novel was published in 1987. In other words, roughly 5% of the adult population of Japan purchased the book. Murakami became a national celebrity in the …

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