Norwegian Wood

When he hears her favourite Beatles song，Toru Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko，the girlfriend of his beat friend Kizuki。Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his srudent days in Tokyo，adrift in a world of uneasy friendships，casal sex，passion，loss and desire-to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his llife and he has to choose between the futuyre and the past。

Jay Rubin，Haruki Murakami was born in born in Kyoto in 1949 and lives near Tokyo。His work has been translated into thirty-four languages，and the most recent of his many honours is the Yomiuri Literary Prize，whoese previous recipients include Yukio Mishima，Kenzaburo Oe and Kobo Abe。
Jay Rubin is a professor of Japanese Liteature at Harvard University。He is the author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and he has also translated Murakamis’s The Wind-up Bird Cbronicle and After the Quake。