Description
The book is about a man, Toru Watanabe, who is transported back to his student days in Tokyo and remembers his first love, Naoko. Naoko was the girlfriend of his best friend, Kizuki, and they were together for a short time. Toru remembers how he was in love with Naoko and how he had to choose between her and Kizuki. He eventually chooses Naoko and they eventually break up.
When he hears her favourite 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.