Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 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 magnificent blending of the music the mood and
the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one
college students romantic coming of age Norwegian Wood
brilliantly recaptures a young mans first hopeless and
heroic love.