VintageMurakami

Table of Contents Title Page Chapter One - from NORWEGIAN WOOD BARN BURNING SHIZUKO AKASHI - Ii-yu-nii-an [Disneyland] HONEY PIE 1 2 LIEUTENANT MAMIYA’S LONG STORY: PART I - from THE WIND- UP BIRD CHRONICLE LIEUTENANT MAMIYA’S LONG STORY: PART II - from THE WIND- UP BIRD CHRONICLE ICE MAN VINTAGE BOOKS BY HARUKI MURAKAMI VINTAGE READERS - Authors available in this series About the Author BOOKS BY HARUKI MURAKAMI Copyright Page Chapter One from NORWEGIAN WOOD I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth and lent everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape: the ground crew in rain gear, a flag atop a squat airport building, a BMW billboard. So—Germany again. Once the plane was on the ground, soft music began to flow from the ceiling speakers: a sweet orchestral cover version of the Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” The melody never failed to send a shudder through me, but this time it hit me harder than ever. I bent forward in my seat, face in hands to keep my skull from splitting open. Before long one......