The release date for the English version of 'Norwegian Wood' by
Haruki Murakami is Sep 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A lovely and contemplative young lady named Naoko is the love of Toru, a quiet and very serious young college student in Tokyo; nevertheless, their shared devotion is marred by the untimely loss of their closest friend years before.While Naoko finds life's duties and expectations intolerable, Toru starts to adjust to university life and the loneliness and isolation he experiences there. Toru finds himself reaching out to others and attracted to a fiercely independent and sexually free young lady as she withdraws even more into her own world.
Norwegian Wood conveys a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love in a stunning way by fusing the tale of a romantic coming-of-age of a college student with the music, atmosphere, and ethos of the 1960s.