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  • Haruki Murakami is my favorite author. I was lucky enough to stumble upon Norwegian Wood when I was living in Japan in 2003. From this book on I was hooked. I have read all of Murakmi's books and am always waiting for a new release. I have yet to be dissapointed by any of his books. Norwegian W ... Continue

    Haruki Murakami is my favorite author. I was lucky enough to stumble upon Norwegian Wood when I was living in Japan in 2003. From this book on I was hooked. I have read all of Murakmi's books and am always waiting for a new release. I have yet to be dissapointed by any of his books. Norwegian Wood will always hold a special place in my heart since it's the first book I read by Murakami and it's probably my favorite of all his books.

    

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  • It’s just an old fashioned love story: Boy meets best friend’s girlfriend. Best friend commits suicide. Boy and girl fall in love under the specter of best friend’s death. Girl goes insane.

    One of my favorites!

    

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First American Publication

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.  It is sure to be a literary event.

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.  Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable.  As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

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• NovelJapanese literatureFictionForeignJapanJapanese fictionMy libraryLiteraturemagical realism20th c.