'A masterly novel' New York Times
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     Read 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 to choose between the future and the past.
     'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but   then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time   Out
     'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the   heartbreak and loss of faith' Sunday Times
     'This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze   and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the   highs of adolescence as well as the lows'   Independent on Sunday



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