Gardening Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's

Recently Viewed clear list

Guests | May 15, 2013

Samuel Sattin: IMG Nanny of the Corn

1 comment By Samuel Sattin

Fear was my gateway to becoming interested in stories. My nanny growing up, a Scottish expat named Jackie with a fox pelt of red hair and a manic... Continue »
  1. $13.27 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

    League of Somebodies

    Samuel Sattin 9780985035501
spacer
Ships free on qualified orders.
$12.00
List price: $15.00
Sale Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
5 Airport Featured Titles- General
1 Beaverton Literature- A to Z
7 Burnside Featured Titles- Literature
19 Burnside Literature- A to Z
2 Hawthorne Literature- A to Z
9 Hawthorne Featured Titles- General
2 Local Warehouse Literature- A to Z
33 Local Warehouse Literature- A to Z
25 Remote Warehouse Literature- A to Z

Norwegian Wood

by

Norwegian Wood Cover

 

Special Powells.com Offer!

For a limited time, save 20% on select Japanese fiction titles (new, not used, copies only). Browse all eligible titles.

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.

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.

Review:

"Norwegian Wood...not only points to but manifests the author's genius." Chicago Tribune

Review:

"Murakami tells a subtle, charming, profound and very sexy story of young love bound for tragedy." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"[O]ne of Murakami's most appealing — if uncharacteristic — books....[A]nother solid building-block in one of contemporary fiction's most energetic and impressive bodies of work." Kirkus Reviews

Review:

"Haruki Murakami is our greatest living practitioner of fiction....The novels aren't afraid to pull tricks usually banned from serious fiction: they are suspenseful, corny, spooky, and hilarious; they're airplane reading, but when you're through you spend the rest of the flight, the rest of the month, rethinking life." Daniel Handler, The Village Voice

Review:

"Deeply moving, darkly comic, beautifully written, and smoothly translated, this is for all literary fiction collections." Library Journal

Review:

"Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels." Los Angeles Times Book Review

Review:

"[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done." The Baltimore Sun

Review:

"A world class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks." Washington Post Book World

Review:

"[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature." Newsday

Review:

“A masterly novel....Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand.” The New York Times Book Review

Review:

“[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done.” The Baltimore Sun
back to top

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.
back to top

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 3 comments:
A.Greene.xp, January 1, 2013 (view all comments by A.Greene.xp)
The characters in this book stayed with me longer than many other characters that I've encountered in novels. Haruki Murakami has a way with words; everything he writes is pure poetic prose. There isn't a moment that passes in the novel without careful attention to scenery, or emotion, or character development, or a combination of the three. The book speaks about a lot of deep human feelings, and during and after I read it, I was touched by how well Murakami was able to put these abstractions into words. I highly recommend this book, but know that it is a sad, albeit beautiful, read.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
report this comment
Zackie, January 1, 2010 (view all comments by Zackie)
Deeply moving. Poetic without losing touch with reality.
This is by far Murakami's best work and one of the greatest books ever written.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(5 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment
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.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(18 of 30 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment
View all 3 comments
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780375704024
Author:
Murakami, Haruki
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Translator:
Rubin, Jay
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Japan
Subject:
College students
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2000
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage International Original
Publication Date:
September 2000
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.02x5.24x.71 in. .57 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End...
    New Trade Paper $15.79
  2. A Wild Sheep Chase
    Used Trade Paper $10.95
  3. Sputnik Sweetheart
    Used Trade Paper $7.95
  4. Kitchen Used Book Club Paperback $1.50
  5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Used Trade Paper $8.95
  6. Monkey Brain Sushi New Tastes in Japanes Used Trade Paper $4.50
back to top

Related Subjects


Featured Titles » General
Featured Titles » Literature
Fiction and Poetry » Japanese Fiction Sale
Fiction and Poetry » Literature » A to Z
Rare Books » Fiction and Poetry » Literature

Norwegian Wood Sale Trade Paper
0 stars - 0 reviews
$12.00 In Stock
Product details 304 pages Vintage Books USA - English 9780375704024 Reviews:
"Review" by , "Norwegian Wood...not only points to but manifests the author's genius."
"Review" by , "Murakami tells a subtle, charming, profound and very sexy story of young love bound for tragedy."
"Review" by , "[O]ne of Murakami's most appealing — if uncharacteristic — books....[A]nother solid building-block in one of contemporary fiction's most energetic and impressive bodies of work."
"Review" by , "Haruki Murakami is our greatest living practitioner of fiction....The novels aren't afraid to pull tricks usually banned from serious fiction: they are suspenseful, corny, spooky, and hilarious; they're airplane reading, but when you're through you spend the rest of the flight, the rest of the month, rethinking life."
"Review" by , "Deeply moving, darkly comic, beautifully written, and smoothly translated, this is for all literary fiction collections."
"Review" by , "Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels."
"Review" by , "[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done."
"Review" by , "A world class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks."
"Review" by , "[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature."
"Review" by , “A masterly novel....Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand.”
"Review" by , “[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done.”
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.