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The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world. Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20. 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.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - nine masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

TRANSLATED BY JAY RUBIN

Paperback
Publication: 6 Aug 2026, Vintage Classics

ISBN: 9781529988420

Extent: 400 pages

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      The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world. Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20. 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.

      VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - nine masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

      TRANSLATED BY JAY RUBIN

      Paperback
      Publication: 6 Aug 2026, Vintage Classics

      ISBN: 9781529988420

      Extent: 400 pages

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