Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find new meanings and new love to survive.
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Haruki Murakami lives near Tokyo.
Newly translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
an 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 youn
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Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR001423189
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Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers wbs8056463485
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Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers wbs2130259419
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Anbieter: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Vereinigtes Königreich
Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. Ted Smart Book People edition published shortly after the first Harvill edition which was published in 2000. Two softbound volumes - one red and the other green - contained in gold box. The books have only very slight edge rubbing and the binding is tight - many of the Harvill copies were poorly produced and prone to page loosening. The box has label with 'over 4 million copies sold' on the front panel where there is also some surface damage - probably where another label has been removed. The box also has a few surface scratches and a little rubbing to the corners. Complete with the A5 card flyer which has a small scrape at the bottom. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020815
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Anbieter: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007870
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Anbieter: diakonia secondhand, München, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. 600 S. Zustand sehr gut. Box an Ecken leicht abgestoßen. Bücher wirken ungelesen. 562 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 530 Taschenbuch, Maße: 16.3 cm x 2.5 cm x 21.8 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 45470
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Anbieter: Bristlecone Books RMABA, Ridgway, CO, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 2 near fine softcover books in decorated VG box. Red and green volumes. Later printings. Mark free. Both have number lines that start with 2 . English text. Fiction 247pp, 247pp. Slipcase has a smudge at center. Fiction. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1652703654473
Anbieter: The Book Exchange, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good Minus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Minus. See photos. Light rubbing to box. Light creasing to books. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 013099
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Anbieter: MintFirsts Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, Macclesfield, CHESH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fine. No jacket. First UK edition. First UK edition. The trade issue. Complete in 2 vols. Small 8vos., [viii], 247pp.; [viii], 247pp. Decorated card wrappers (vol. 1, red + gold; vol. 2, green + gold) after the Japanese original. Housed in publisher's clamshell box. First Authorized English translation by Jay Rubin. Norwegian Wood was previously translated into English (by Alfred Birnbaum, 1989) in an edition published by Kodansha International Ltd for its English Library series and intended solely for sale in Japan. Originally published by Kodansha in 1987 as Noruwei no mori. Author's fifth novel. A nostalgic look at late 1960s Tokyo student life - a time of rebellion and burgeoning sexuality - told in a first-person narrative. Its straightforward lyricism, as opposed to his usual experimental, allegorical style, remains unique in Murakami's canon. "I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book. That's why I wrote that book. It was a best-seller in Japan and I expected that result." Presciently, hugely popular with Japanese youth, Norwegian Wood turned Murakami into a domestic superstar - much to the reclusive author's dismay - with well over 4 million copies sold to date. Murakami adapted the first section of the novel from an earlier short story, "Firefly", which was subsequently included in the collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006). A film adaptation by the same name directed by Tran Anh Hung, and starring Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kôra, and Reika Kirishima, was released in 2010. "A masterly novel." -New York Times. [John Wray, "Haruki Murakami: The Art of Fiction No. 182," The Paris Review 170 (Summer 2004)] 525. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7U6 43U
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Anbieter: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Kanada
Soft cover in clamshell box. Zustand: Near Fine. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9 in both soft cover books, volume one with red covers, volume two with green covers; unexplained discolouration to part of front cover of clamshell box and a few light scratches and a bit of edge wear to spine; two paperback volumes are sold and clean with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 247 oages each volume; the clamshell box with the two volumes will be very carefully packed and shipped. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 024517
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