27/1/11 - Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

My favorite book last year was probably Wind-up Bird - so I thought it was time to try Murakami's most famous book. And even though it is only January - this certainly looks like it will be my favorite for 2011. A beautiful love story set in the late 60 Japan - with student revolutions fizzing and fizzing out, free love. Why did it take him so long to go back to Midori - she was lovely from the start - he just had to get over his nutter girlfriend from before. Some very dark parts in the book for sure - but such lovely quirky characters all the way through. Oh - and a fair dose of free love too which lubricates the story nicely.