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Summary:

"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 student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love." -- Page 4 of cover.

Author/Creator:

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- , author

Contributors:

Rubin, Jay, 1941- , translator

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Japanese

Main Work:

Noruwei no mori [by Murakami, H.] (English)

Subjects:

College students — Japan — Fiction

Man-woman relationships — Japan — Fiction

College students

Man-woman relationships

Japan

Genres:

Fiction

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PL856.U673 N6713 2000

ISBNs:

0375704027 (paperback)
9780375704024 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99053821

OCLC Numbers:

42692182