ノルウェイの森

A man in his late thirties hears a Beatles song and remembers his student years in Tokyo around 1969, and two young women he loved. It is Murakami’s most straightforward and most popular novel, tender and easy to read. Its melancholy is affecting, though the women exist mostly for the narrator, and grief sometimes turns into mood.

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