He goes to visit her at her family's bookstore, and they share a kiss although each is attached to another. While he waits for her, Toru goes to classes and works, remaining isolated until he meets Midori, a girl who appears and then disappears for days or weeks. When Naoko finally writes to Toru, he learns she's had a mental breakdown and is in a sanatorium. Toru writes to her and longs for her but hears nothing for a long while. Toru makes love to her, but the next day she disappears. Naoko talks continuously, but she seems to be avoiding certain subjects. On Naoko's birthday, Toru brings her a cake, and they spend the evening drinking wine and listening to music. Though Naoko has trouble talking and expressing herself, they spend every Sunday together. Toru runs into Naoko one day while he is in college, and the two start to see each other every Sunday. Both choose to attend colleges in Tokyo, where they can get away from their pasts. However, Kizuki's suicide throws Naoko and Toru into depression. In high school, Toru, his best friend Kizuki, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko are inseparable. The novel begins when Toru is thirty-seven, remembering the events that happened to him twenty years ago. Toru is filled with guilt when Naoko kills herself, but ultimately he calls out to Midori. Meanwhile, though, he falls in love with Midori, an open and uninhibited girl who represents life.
When she goes into a mental hospital, he promises to wait for her. Toru falls in love with Kizuki's tortured girlfriend, Naoko, who is isolated in her own mind. Norwegian Wood is the story of Toru Watanabe, a young man who is damaged by the suicide of his high school friend, Kizuki.
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