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Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Author(s): Haruki Murakami

Location(s): Japan, Tokyo

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction

Era(s): 1960s onwards

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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.

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The feelings, often sad in this book are so well expressed, beautifully written and really well translated it would seem. I enjoyed the descriptions of Japanese student halls, what it is like to have...

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