Norwegian Wood

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world. Autumn 1969, as Toru Watanabe approaches his 20th birthday, he recalls his first love, Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. This reflection transports him back to his student days in Tokyo, filled with uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss, and desire. He faces a choice between the future and the past when he meets Midori. 'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami’s writing that everything he describes 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.