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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 magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

After my cheating fiancé set my old life ablaze, I returned to Rosewood, the small town I grew up in. Everything in Rosewood may have looked the same, but it sure felt different ten years later. When I moved into my late grandmother’s cafe, I had no plans of staying long. Those plans of isolating myself in her shop quickly died. Nicholas Reid, my old rival from our high school volleyball team, found me minutes after entering town and seemed quite surprised to find me sneaking in during the middle of the night. Since I decided to take over my grandmother’s shop and run it on my own terms, Reid started showing up nearly every day. His helpful act was most likely a charade, just like every other man who had made their way into my life. But as we became friends, I found myself wishing for more. Learning to run my own business would be a challenging adventure, and with Reid living right next door I was bound to run into trouble. If luck was any factor, I was destined for ruin. Or would my luck in life and love turn around?