Haruki Murakami

Japanese novelist; Norwegian Wood is his nostalgic story of love and loss in late-1960s Tokyo.

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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and translator.

Norwegian Wood, first published in 1987, is narrated by Toru Watanabe as he looks back on his student years in Tokyo.

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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami

Hearing a Beatles song years later, Toru Watanabe is carried back to his student days in Tokyo and to two very different young women.

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