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ISBN13: 9780375704024 |
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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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kshaffner, November 28, 2006 (view all comments by kshaffner)
Norwegian Wood, named after the eponymous Beatles? song, is vintage Murakami, analogous to Catcher in the Rye in that it has become required reading for soulful Japanese youth. A dark coming-of-age story with more innocence and less surrealist imagery than the trippy, Oedipal (but also excellent) Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood is first and foremost about the haunting, unforgettable nature of lost love.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375704024
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Translator:
- Rubin, Jay
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Japan
- Subject:
- College students
- Subject:
- Love stories
- Copyright:
- 2000
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Vintage International
- Publication Date:
- September 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 8.02x5.24x.71 in. .57 lbs.











