Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0375704027
Publisher: Vintage Books
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, but grew up largely
in Kobe, a cosmopolitan seaport where he made early contact with foreign
languages and literature. He studied classical drama at Waseda Univeristy,
and, after graduating, briefly managed a jazz bar in Kokubunji. His first
novel, Hear the Wind Sing, appeared in 1979 and was awarded the Gunzou
Literature Prize. One of Japan's most important and popular writers, his
work has been translated into sixteen languages and includes South of
the Border West of the Sun; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Dance Dance Dance;
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World; A Wild Sheep Chase; and
The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories. An intrepid traveler,
Murakami completed Norwegian Wood, which was originally published in 1987,
during a three-year sojourn in Greece and Italy. He has taught at Princeton
University and now lives near Tokyo.
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