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Book Review : Norwegian Wood : a complicated romance with so many twists and trauma

Norwegian wood, one of the infamous books by the author Haruki Murakami, I never heard of it until my friend mentioned this and how she got the book from her former acquaintance who ghosted her, which is an interesting backstory on how she got it then how I got it from her, of course I have to return the book to her. This book was originally published in 1987, and it tells about a young man recalling his youth life back in the 80s as a high school student and as a college student mostly, showed how wild his life was but also lots of troubles that lurked him slowly until he's all grown up. What interest me at first was to be honest, the explicit description of the sexual acts, it was even more specific and surprising by the end. I have to differentiate what an essay and book review, and not to do an essay accidentally on this. Note that this book review will always be biased because it came from a normal book reader, not an expert in such literature.  I have told you the first thing...