Haruki Murakami · 1987 · exile

Haruki Murakami's 1987 novel. As a student in late-1960s Tokyo, Toru Watanabe is caught between the fragile, grieving Naoko - who withdraws to a remote sanatorium in the hills near Kyoto - and the vivid, headstrong Midori in the city. A quiet story of love, loss and memory, moving between the noise of Tokyo and the still mountain retreat where Naoko tries to heal.

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   Tokyo

   The city where Toru studies, drifts through the student unrest of the late sixties, and is drawn between his devotion to the distant Naoko and his growing feeling for Midori.

2. 2
   Kyoto

   The wooded hills outside the city where Naoko retreats to the Ami Hostel sanatorium, and where Toru visits her in a stillness far removed from Tokyo's clamor.