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Haruki murakami's norwegian wood is one of the most popular books of murakami and is set in the japan of the 1960s during the period of student revolution.
Haruki murakami was born in kyoto in 1949. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in tokyo, is devoted to naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Funny thing that there is a word naoko in czech, the meaning being pretended, fake. When he hears her favourite beatles song, toru watanabe recalls his first love naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend kizuki.