Norwegian Wood

Details : 

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Books
Publication Date : 17 May 2001
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099448823
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780099448822
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 350 g

About The Book

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami is a captivating coming-of-age novel set in 1960s Tokyo, exploring themes of love, loss, and self-discovery through the protagonist Toru Watanabe's relationships with Naoko and Midori. This poignant tale masterfully weaves together nostalgia, emotional depth, and atmospheric writing, making it a timeless classic. With its thought-provoking exploration of human connections, mental health, and existential questions, "Norwegian Wood" is a must-read for fans of introspective literature. Haruki Murakami's beautiful prose brings this story to life.

Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out

'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' Guardian

'This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows' Independent on Sunday

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.