| Norwegian Wood Contributor(s): Murakami, Haruki (Author), Rubin, Jay (Translator) |
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ISBN: 161383473X ISBN-13: 9781613834732 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $26.61 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: September 2000 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.8" (0.65 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has 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 Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love." |