Our narrator is the teenage Toku Watanabe, friends with a beautiful girl, Naoko, and her boyfriend, Kazuki. This may be true however, this novel is a sensitive and moving tale of young adult relationships, Japanese culture, and mental illness.
Norwegian Wood has been viewed by many die-hard Murakami fans as a straightforward love story that doesn't have the “magical realism” of his other novels.
This novel is the one that dragged Haruki Murakami from a six-figure readership into international stardom.
