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    Title
    Norwegian Wood
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Haruki Murakami, Translated by Jay Rubin
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 400
    Width: 110 mm
    Height: 175 mm
    Thickness: 27 mm
    Weight: 207 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780099554547
    ISBN 10: 0099554542
    Classifications
    Dewey: FIC
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    VINTAGE
    Imprint name
    VINTAGE
    Publication date
    01 December 2010
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Flap copy
    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.
    Review quote
    "A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand." -"The New York Times Book Review" "Norwegian Wood . . . not only points to but manifests the author's genius." -"Chicago Tribune" "[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" "Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review"