A poignant story of one college students romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.