Norwegian Wood

"Norwegian Wood" made Haruki Murakami world-famous, and although the novel has less action than many of his other works, it is precisely this book that grabs you the most. His characters are typical losers. Everything about them is ambiguous—and because of that, it only becomes more interesting. “Suicide appears so often in the novel that it starts to feel like a given”—and there’s no reason to be surprised. Everything should be just like that…