Product Information
First American Publication 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781860468001
eBay Product ID (ePID)87573189
Product Key Features
Book TitleNorwegian Wood
AuthorH Murakami
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2000
Dimensions
Item Height218mm
Item Width163mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorH Murakami
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom