When he hears her favourite Beatles song,Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko,the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki.
Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo,adrift in a world of uneasy friendships,casual sex,passion,loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099448822Number of pages: 400Weight: 277 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also,for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters,often funny and quirkily observed.'- Times Literary Supplement
'Such is the exquisite,gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility'- Guardian
'This book is undeniably hip,full of student uprisings,free love,booze and 1960s pop,it's also genuinely emotionally engaging,and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows'- Independent on Sunday
'Evocative,entertaining,sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around'- Time Out
'A deeply troubling yet poetically beautiful story'- Marie Claire
'This book is undeniably hip,full of student uprisings,free love,booze and 1960s pop,it's also genuinely emotionally engaging,and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows'- Independent on Sunday
Haruki Murakami
Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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