Norwegian wood

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Tor Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casula sex, passion, loss and desire to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marched into his life and he had to choose between the future and the past.

‘Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around
– TIME OUT