Though they grow close, they still never discuss Kizuki. As the months go by, Toru and Naoko meet every Sunday. Toru and Naoko spend the afternoon walking and talking, but their conversation never drifts to the topic of Kizuki. Naoko is the former girlfriend of Toru’s best friend from high school, Kizuki, who killed himself during their senior year. One afternoon, Toru runs into Naoko, an acquaintance from his hometown of Kobe. The school is in the throes of a student revolution, but Toru avoids politics as he settles into his dorm. In 1968, Toru is a freshman at Waseda University in Tokyo. As thirty-seven-year-old Toru Watanabe lands at the airport in Hamburg, Germany, the plane he’s on begins playing an instrumental cover of the Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” The song hits Toru hard, and he finds himself flung back into memories of his youth.
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