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Norwegian wood

First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimedWind-Up Bird Chroniclehas sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. 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 poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age,Norwegian Woodtakes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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895.635 Mur n

Publisher

New York : Vintage Books., 2011

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389 p. ; 18 cm.

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9780307744661

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895.635

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Japan
Man-woman relationships
Manners and Customs
COLLEGE STUDENTS
NINETEEN SIXTIES
JAPANESE FICTION
JAPAN -- TOKYO
CHINESE FICTION

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