# Norwegian Wood

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- Book: [Norwegian Wood](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood) ([Norwegian Wood.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- Translated by: Jay Rubin
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-799-6
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2022-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the author 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