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Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood is the haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Haruki Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and remains his bestselling title throughout the world. Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first...
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Norwegian Wood is the haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Haruki Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and remains his bestselling title throughout the world.
Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
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. It was a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marched into his life, forcing him to choose between the future and the past.
'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' - Guardian
'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith' - Sunday Times
'A masterly novel' - New York Times
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529957716
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 287g
Pages: 416
About the Author
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
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