Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

Nicolas Menat, the President of Beacon Tokyo (LB/Japan), dropped a little gift into our welcoming package. Awaiting us at the hotel was a new copy of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood. It's always a pleasure to discover new authors, and I look forward to reading this.
From Book Reporter:
NORWEGIAN WOOD is a simple story, simply told, with an emotion and quiet retrospection characteristic of Murakami's trademark style, especially in works like SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN. First published in Japan in 1987, it is this novel that propelled him into the forefront of the literary scene and made him Japan's biggest-selling novelist. His characters are unpredictable and quirky as they share poignant insights into growing up in the late'60s, losing loved ones and accepting undeserved tragedies of youth.


Read more about Murakami's latest book, 1Q84, here at the Telegraph:
With novels read in more than 40 languages, Kyoto-born Haruki Murakami is probably the most popular of those authors whose names bookmakers list each year prior to the award of the latest Nobel literature prize. His best-known work, Norwegian Wood (1987), which traces the love life of a Japanese student in the late Sixties, won him such fame in his home country that he fled to Europe and the United States in search of anonymity.