Norwegian Wood

村上春樹

first published 1987 Penguin Random House, 2022

Cunshang Chunshu jing pin ji

As his plane lands at a European airport, thirty-seven-year-old Toru Watanabe casually hears an old Beatles song. Suddenly, the music transports him back to his youth, to the turbulent Tokyo of the late sixties. He then remembers, with melancholy and unease, the unstable and mysterious Naoko, the girlfriend of his best—and only—friend from adolescence, Kizuki, and how Kizuki's suicide distanced them for a year until...

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Jay Rubin 4 printings we hold · 2000–2003 · Vintage

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Editions we hold

Norwegian Wood edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 9781784877996
Tokio Blues hardcover · 2020 · Maxi-Tusquets · 400 pages · 9788490664445
Tokio blues : norwegian wood edition · 2016 · Tusquets · 382 pages · 9789871210725
Norwegian Wood paperback · 2016 · Vintage Books · 390 pages · 9780099584353
Norra mets edition · 2015 · Varrak · 357 pages · 9789985332047
Norvezhskiĭ les edition · 2015 · ĖKSMO · 364 pages · 9785699253814
Norwegian Wood paperback · 2013 · Mineumsa · 440 pages · 9788937463105
Norwegian Wood Tokyo Blues paperback · 2013 · Einaudi · 9788806216467
Norwegian Wood paperback · 2013 · Muza · 472 pages · 9788377585696
La Balade de l'Impossible paperback · 2012 · France Loisirs · 9782298062137
Norwegian Wood edition · 2012 · Vintage Books · 9780307950628
Norwegian Wood edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 400 pages · 9781448103706

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