Literary · Romance
Norwegian Wood
Bestseller: about 12 million copies (estimate)Looking back at his student days in 1960s Tokyo, Toru remembers the death of his best friend and his fraught relationship with the friend's fragile girlfriend, while a livelier young woman pulls him another way.
- First published
- 1987
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a quiet, melancholy coming-of-age novel about grief and loneliness.
Skip this if you expect the surreal side of Murakami, since this is his realistic novel, or suicide is a difficult subject.
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