![]() ![]() ![]() Toru makes a commitment to Naoko, but back at college he encounters Midori, a vibrant, outgoing young woman. She eventually enters a convalescent home for disturbed people, and when Toru visits her, he meets her roommate, an older musician named Reiko, who's had a long history of mental instability. But Naoko is a very troubled young woman her brilliant older sister has also committed suicide, and though sweet and desperate for happiness, she often becomes untethered. His best friend, Kizuki, inexplicably commits suicide, after which Toru becomes first enamored, then involved with Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko. A successful, 37-year-old businessman, Toru Watanabe, hears a version of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, and the music transports him back 18 years to his college days. Salamanca's classic 1964 novel, Lilith-the tale of a young man's involvement with a schizophrenic girl. In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. ![]()
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