📚Story Time with Sol: Norwegian wood

Welcome to Steel City Book Club!

Our next book will be Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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.

A story set in late-1960s Japan, detailing the romantic exploits of Toru Watanabe, in particular his relationship with two women, Naoko and Midori Kobayashi. Each of the three characters has experienced intense loss and grief, and each have their own methods of coping.