num_pages: 389
description: 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.
language: English
title: Norwegian Wood
titlecomplete: Norwegian Wood
characters: Toru Watanabe, Nagasawa, Midori Kobayashi, Naoko, Reiko Ishida
genres: Classics, Magical Realism, Japan, Novels, Japanese Literature, Romance, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 564139
places: Tokyo, Japan
publisher: The Harvill Press