Top 10+ Padurea norvegiana

Toru Watanabe falls in love with his dead friend's girlfriend. Haruki Murakami tells their story in this novel. He shows the strain of their troubled love. Social and political unrest marks the 1960s, when it takes place. Their private times of love and sex contrast with this unrest.

The book blends a love story with a look at inner life. Its world includes student rooms, music and classic books. The Beatles song “Norwegian Wood” gives the book its title.

This pocket edition is in Romanian. It forms part of Polirom's TOP 10+ series. Angela Hondru translated the text from Japanese. She also wrote the notes.