Resumo de Tokio Blues (norwegian Blues)

A book between life and death.
Living in a city like Tokio must be complicated. Little space, non-stop noises, fulminating trains, polluting cars, endless skyscrapers and thousands neon lights bringing light to streets full of chimeras. If to all this you add the suicide of your best friend, the loneliness, the beginning of the university life in a country such as competitive as Japan, we can find us with the absurd of a heart that beats the reason.
Watanabe, the protagonist and narrator in first person, reads during part of the book "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann, while he tries to climb that enchanted mount in a world that is too sad as for create this paradise.
"Norwegian blues" is the original title of the book, a Beatle's song, interpretated in the book by the guitar of the music professor.
The first paragraph of the book shows us the protagonist reaching Hamburgo, the city were The Beatles started their way to immortality. The author gives authenticity to the reality of some characters. Midori, the girl with thousands of erotic dreams reprimided by his boyfriend and in the bottom by herself. Reiko, the woman in her fourties that tries to solve the life of the others, while hers goes out of her control; Kizuki, a boy who is too intelligent to adapt himself to this world. Nagasawa, the man of today, living up to date and without useless moralities.
What is the difference between "normal" people and the mental handicap one?, wonder the protagonist. The main difficult is situated on finding out if the borderline that differentiates ones from the others really exists or we are just all the same. It could happen that the abyss that separates us consists in that the majority of us don't show our fears or blames, while others show themselves as they are, and because of that we are afraid of them and shut them in. I love her like this, for you she is ill and needs help, but she has always been like this and in this way I have fallen in love with her, if she changed, would I love her the same? Among these, lots of other questions torment a man that is in his early twenties, trap in the vorágine of the modern society. Concluding the major discovery of the little oriental jewel. The discovery of the beauty in some Japanese names and places: Naoko, Reiko, Watanabe, Kizuki, Kabukicho, Yotsuya, Sanjo, Nagasawa and some others that I can't remember now.

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