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Narrated by:
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Sean Barrett
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Oliver Le Sueur
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Written by:
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Haruki Murakami
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at 15, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The ageing Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people, fish tumble from the sky, a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night, a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.
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Critic Reviews
"Wonderful.... Magical and outlandish." (Daily Mail)
"Cool, fluent and addictive." (Daily Telegraph)
"Hypnotic, spellbinding." (The Times)
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- Deepanshu Malhotra
- 20-04-22
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The most beautiful thing about the book is that, that how the author merges multiple story to a perfect climatic conclusion.
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- Anand Chauhan
- 27-03-24
A strange, self-indulgent and graphic novel.
It's a very weird story, at points annoying and sometimes even pretending to be something much smarter than it is, but it is grounding, in a strange way.
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I don't know I'm at loss of words
this is the first murakami book I just couldn't put it down. although at some points it's gross but it amazing. there are so many things unexplained but you automatically assume those things and try to attach meaning deduced from the story itself. and at the end it left you to decide the ending. I like that.
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- 12-05-23
A Writer's book
All of it is a metaphor.
No story progression as such but excellently written.
well narrated.
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- Naghera Hitesh k.
- 13-06-23
Nice book
the book has some fantastic writing and keeps you hooked in but the ending was bit predictable and not as interesting as the whole story line. overall its a good read
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- Swati
- 29-05-21
Narrators are fantastic!
I loved the narration, their performance is awesome! However, I have mixed feelings about the story.
Regardless will be giving more of Murakami's work a shot as I did enjoy the journey.
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- Yash Dhewal
- 12-10-21
Too Good!
My favorite narrator....he is simply perfect. And I am going to listen all of Haruki!!!
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- Anne
- 16-01-21
Recommended
The story is unique and the narrative is amazing. Loved it. Truly a masterpiece of magic realism.
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- Hiral R.
- 25-03-21
one of best works of Murakami
narration is pretty good. the book is magical. takes you to another dimension. it is truly a labyrinth.
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- Bhupesh
- 14-03-24
Storytelling and details to make it visually stunning
Story is good and the key thing is story is so well written that it makes it visually stunning
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