Norwegian Wood

    • 4.4 • 183 Ratings
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Publisher Description

'A masterly novel' New York Times

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

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.

*Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now*

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

'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith' Sunday Times

'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

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
10 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
2.7
MB

Customer Reviews

esragok ,

So sad, so real. Great story, burning your eyes!

Watanabi, Naoko,Reiko, Midori...
Was it Love or lust? Whose fault it was? Why they choose to die rather than taking a change of the love?

amyroooose ,

Rapey

Quite predatory towards women I had to put it down

Emilymargot ,

Emotional and endearing

Unlike others whom have read this book sooner than other murakami ones, this was the fourth book of his that I have read. I wasn't too keen to read it as people have said it is a depressing and sad story, however it is definitely my favourite of his so far.

It is a beautiful story, which has made me chuckle out loud a few times, but really pulls the heart strings, especially towards the end.

The characters are engrossing and relatable (to an extent) and I would definitely recommend reading it.

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