<Ul> <Li> The novel borrows its title from the 1965 song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" by The Beatles . Throughout the novel, the characters reference Western rock and folk music . </Li> <Li> One of the favorite books of Watanabe and his older friend Nagasawa is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald . But before that book became Watanabe's favorite, he liked John Updike's The Centaur, which he read several times . </Li> <Li> In his initial meetings with Naoko and Reiko at Ami, Watanabe is reading Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain . He is also assessing Beneath the Wheel, the second book of Hermann Hesse . </Li> <Li> When Watanabe visits Naoko at Ami, but before he actually meets her, he reminisces about a time when he and his friend Kizuki took a motorcycle day trip down the coast . A bit later Naoko and Watanabe talk about Kizuki and Watanabe visiting her in a hospital when Naoko was in High School . This incident bears a strong similarity to the title story in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The novel borrows its title from the 1965 song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" by The Beatles . Throughout the novel, the characters reference Western rock and folk music . </Li> <Li> One of the favorite books of Watanabe and his older friend Nagasawa is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald . But before that book became Watanabe's favorite, he liked John Updike's The Centaur, which he read several times . </Li> <Li> In his initial meetings with Naoko and Reiko at Ami, Watanabe is reading Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain . He is also assessing Beneath the Wheel, the second book of Hermann Hesse . </Li>

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