In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. Salamanca's classic 1964 novel, LilithAthe tale of a young man's involvement with a schizophrenic girl. A successful, 37-year-old businessman, Toru Watanabe, hears a version of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, and the music transports him back 18 years to his college days. His best friend, Kizuki, inexplicably commits suicide, after which Toru becomes first enamored, then involved with Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko. But Naoko is a very troubled young woman; her brilliant older sister has also committed suicide, and though sweet and desperate for happiness, she often becomes untethered. She eventually enters a convalescent home for disturbed people, and when Toru visits her, he meets her roommate, an older musician named Reiko, who's had a long history of mental instability. The three become fast friends. Toru makes a commitment to Naoko, but back at college he encounters Midori, a vibrant, outgoing young woman. As he falls in love with her, Toru realizes he cannot continue his relationship with Naoko, whose sanity is fast deteriorating. Though the solution to his problem comes too easily, Murakami tells a subtle, charming, profound and very sexy story of young love bound for tragedy. Published in Japan in 1987, this novel proved a wild success there, selling four million copies.

《挪威的森林》的作者村上春树几乎囊括了日本所有的文学奖项，在日本销售了700多万册，现已被译成多种文字在世界流行。可以说，小说情节是平平的，笔调是缓缓的，语气是淡淡的，然而字里行间却鼓涌着一股无可抑制的冲击波，激起读者强烈的心灵震颤与共鸣。小说想向我们倾诉什么呢，生与死？死与性？性与爱？坦率与真诚？一时竟很难回答。读罢掩卷，只是觉得整个身心都浸泡在漫无边际的冰水里，奔波于风雪交加的旅途中，又好像感受着暴风雨过后的沉寂、大醉初醒生的虚脱……

内容简介

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.

　　《挪威的森林》是一部动人心弦的、平缓舒雅的、略带感伤的、百分之百的恋爱小说。小说主人公渡边以第一人称展开他同两个女孩间的爱情纠葛。渡边的第一个恋人直子原是他高中要好同学木月的女友，后来木月自杀了。一年后渡边同直子不期而遇并开始交往。此时的直子已变得娴静腼腆，美丽晶莹的眸子里不时掠过一丝难以捕捉的阴翳。两人只是日复一日地在落叶飘零的东京街头漫无目标地或前或后或并肩行走不止。直子20岁生日的晚上两人发生了性关系，不料第二天直子便不知去向。几个月后直子来信说她住进一家远在深山里的精神疗养院。渡边前去探望时发现直子开始带有成熟女性的丰腴与娇美。晚间两人虽同处一室，但渡边约束了自己，分手前表示永远等待直子。返校不久，由于一次偶然相遇，渡边开始与低年级的绿子交往。绿子同内向的直子截然相反，“简直就像迎着春天的晨光蹦跳到世界上来的一头小鹿”。这期间，渡边内心十分苦闷彷徨。一方面念念不忘直子缠绵的病情与柔情，一方面又难以抗拒绿子大胆的表白和迷人的活力。不久传来直子自杀的噩耗，渡边失魂魄地四处徒步旅行。最后，在直子同房病友玲子的鼓励下，开始摸索此后的人生。

作者简介

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.

　　村上春树（1949—），日本著名作家。京都府人。毕业于早稻田大学文学部。 1979年以处女作《且听风吟》获群像新人文学奖。主要著作有《挪威的森林》、《世界尽头与冷酷仙境》、《舞!舞!舞!》、《奇鸟行状录》、《海边的卡夫卡》等。作品被译介至三十多个国家和地区，在世界各地深具影响。

精彩书评

"This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy."
--Mark Thwaite

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