Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiRead the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. 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

a missed mother

she turns to science for answers

and longings

but is also highly attuned to the world outside

So when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes

calm and generous' Mary Beard

and brilliantly evokes the comical chaos of life in the smoky newsroom of Ireland’s paper-of-record

One hungry fox with two sly eyes is on the prowl

she will find the strength to keep running

along with a host of fantastic new heroes and villains

this is the perfect first introduction to trees for preschoolers

may experience his or her own fearlessness