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Norwegian Wood

Written by: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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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.

©2000 Haruki Murakami (P)2020 Penguin Audio
20th Century Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Historical Romance Literary Fiction World Literature

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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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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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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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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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Wow!

Murakami will not let you have one dull moment. What a story! Great narration as well!

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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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Depressing and beautiful

My first murakami and it was great. It's weird how sad you get with this book and still can't stop listening further. The book majorly revolves a lot around death and mental illness.
So I wouldn't recommended it for someone dealing with depression or recent death of a loved one.

Brilliantly read by Adam Sims. No issues in differentiating character voices.

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Magical

This is my first listening to an audio book and it was an amazing experience

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Entangled emotions. Lovely expressions

All i’d say is a very good read. Murakami captured every detail of character and emotion. Now am very much looking forward to next reads of his.
Narration is well put and woven to the characters voices.
Thanks!

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Narration of the audio & the creativity of the author

Book dives deep into your heart and brings to live all buried memories and emotions leaving you with some tears and smiles at the same time.

Book is full of red flag characters or to say all the characters in the story are a red flag makes you wonder if that’s true IRL as well.

Also, I wish that writing a letter would still be a thing in 2020s so that our generation could express better.

The narration of audio is very good. One of the best.

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