![]() ![]() Toru and Kizuki’s girlfriend Naoko form a bond and he soon falls in love with her. It’s set in the 60s in Tokyo and it follows Toru Watanabe, a college student coming to terms with the death of his best friend Kizuki. There are certainly elements of a love story (it’s listed in the top 100 romance books on Goodreads), but there’s not a great deal of romance to be seen. I find it quite difficult to put into words what this book is about, because it didn’t seem to have a clear meaning for me. ![]() I’ve recently finished and have to say that I found it a little… odd. “Norwegian Wood” is the most famous of Harumi Murakami‘s work, so it seemed the perfect starting point for me. 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. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Publisher: Vintage (first published September 4th 1987) ![]()
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