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Narrated by:
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Adam Sims
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Written by:
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Haruki Murakami
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
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 20 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.
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- deepshikha
- 30-08-24
it keeps on becoming more and more complicated
Although the author has written it well, but the story was fucked up. It was hard for me to finish it, I was expecting it to become simplified toward the end by it became more entangled in the end.
The recitation was really good though.
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- foodnDestinations
- 15-03-21
Just fell in love with his writing
I painted a picture in my head of all the characters with this. Beautiful beautiful story.
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- AlishiaCrasto
- 15-09-24
Amazing book
Amazing amazing and amazing learn a lot about life how to deal with things. Amazing book to hear and read
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- Rit
- 27-07-22
fantastic, terrific, must read
an experience one should feel, read and believe in.
its not a book, it feels like u r living it.
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- Akriti
- 13-04-24
Wow!
Murakami will not let you have one dull moment. What a story! Great narration as well!
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- Saurabh N.
- 02-10-24
Perfect for the long slow runs
Had read Norwegian Wood a long time back and decided to listen to this while running. Had liked the story - meandering of the protagonist across different relationships. In fact a better title to the book would probably be "All the women in my life"
Overall I have found Murakami to be a good author to listen to while running...
I would especially like to give a shout out to Adam Sims for the narration. He is able to bring is different characters to life with his voice modulation! In fact I was surprised that there was only 1 narrator - I honestly thought it was a combination of folks narrating!
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- Jayesh Mahapatra
- 06-06-21
Excellent Narrator and well portrayed melancholy
Japan in late 1960s really surprised me. They had bullet trains then ? The portrayal of student life was interesting to say the least. Great portrayal of grief and melancholy.
The narrator does an excellent job !
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- Rushi
- 09-01-23
it's pretty good. actually enjoyed it.
it's pretty good. I actually enjoyed it. the narration was exceptional. best of murakami.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-08-23
An Instinctive human story
This book of Murakami's been a certain Physicality to it, given that the book deals with teenager's grief, it is bound to have that. What Murakami captures is the things which doesn't make anysense, happens at that age and very beautifully makes the person for who they really are!
The good & the bad,the optimistic & the ominous, all leading into the basin called life.
PS: Read the book with any judgements.
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- smriti
- 09-09-21
average story beautifully woven
it was a average story but listening in 2021 I really loved the small details of life captured in book which we don't even observe these days owing to our lifes hooked to mobile phones
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