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    <![CDATA[Norwegian Wood]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, <strong>Norwegian Wood</strong> takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is supposed to be Murakami's &quot;normal&quot; novel, the one you can give your friends who aren't ready to deal with house-husbands facing their subconscious at the bottom of a well or with doppelgangers trapped in ferris wheels.<br/><br/>The story begins with Toru and Naoko, a pair of pain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9220679">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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