Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami. The novel is set in Tokyo during the late 1960s, a time when Japanese students, like those of many other nations, were protesting against the established order ... The story was subsequently included in the collectionBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman
. Norwegian Wood was hugely popular with Japanese youth and made Murakami something of a superstar in his native country (apparently much to his dismay at the time) (Barnard Book Club).
