TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Rubin,Jay TI - Norwegian Wood SN - 9780099448822 U1 - 895.635 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - VINTAGE BOOKS KW - College students KW - Fiction KW - Students KW - Japan KW - Tokyo KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Fiction KW - Japan KW - Politics and government N1 - Original title: "Noruwei no mori." N2 - 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 ER -