一部設定在六O年代日本學運時代的東京少年故事，主角與兩名女子的愛情物語，一個有著恬靜形象、另一個則像旺盛的生命動力，村上自己曾說《挪威的森林》是一部有著「激情、寂靜、悲哀」的愛情故事，一部百分之百的愛情小說。
　　When he hears her favorite 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.

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