Norwegian Wood

Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. 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. Evocative; entertaining; sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around Time Out Such is the exquisite; gossamer construction of Murakamis writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility Guardian This book is undeniably hip; full of student uprisings; free love; booze and 1960s pop; its also genuinely emotionally engaging; and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows Independent on Sunday