Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami ceramics and ultimately how we sometimes

and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones we want the most

fear and prejudice

and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena

get any grade less than an A

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami ceramics and ultimately how we sometimesAlternate cover edition here . 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.