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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls, is a captivating blend of love story, quest narrative, and ode to literature. Released in April 2023 in Japanese and November 2024 in English, this 672-page tome marks Murakami's return to themes he first explored in a 1980 short story of the same name. The book, showcases Murakami's signature style of blending reality with surrealism.
Featured Article: 10 Famous Japanese Authors You Have to Hear
Thanks to the work of translators and publishers, Japanese literature is now more accessible than ever to English-speaking audiences. If you've ever wanted to learn more about Japanese culture and literature, you cannot go wrong with listening to audiobooks from Japan. We've compiled a list of the most famous Japanese authors who have helped define Japanese literature, and their notable works across genres and time periods.
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.
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outstanding, his best
- By Dakini on 11-26-24
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-19-24
- Language: English
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Dance Dance Dance
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum - translator
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls....
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Compelling!
- By karen on 12-22-16
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Dance Dance Dance
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Series: Rat, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-13-16
- Language: English
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Kafka on the Shore
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....
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What's better than Murakami? More Murakami
- By Dr. Curmudgeon on 04-11-14
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Kafka on the Shore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-06-13
- Language: English
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
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In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface....
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Wonderful book, flawed narration.
- By REBECCA on 02-08-14
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone....
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That's how we become Men Without Women
- By Darwin8u on 07-27-17
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- By Amanda on 11-06-11
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1Q84
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-25-11
- Language: English
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon....
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It is what it says it is
- By Rick on 03-10-09
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-29-08
- Language: English
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect....
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Highly recommend
- By Amazon Customer on 07-23-18
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-12-18
- Language: English
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Norwegian Wood
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before....
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Sorry, but I didn't like the narrator.
- By Kelly McCarty on 10-30-15
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Norwegian Wood
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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騎士団長殺し ―第1部 顕れるイデア編(上)―
- Narrated by: 高橋 一生
- Series: 騎士団長殺し, Book 第1部 上
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-28-22
- Language: Japanese
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- By: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, and others
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element....
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, Daniel Gerroll, Maria Tucci, Anthony Rapp, Jerry Zaks
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-24-10
- Language: English
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世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド(下)
- Narrated by: 大森 南朋
- Series: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Book 下
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-01-23
- Language: Japanese
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La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
- By: Haruki Murakami, Juan Francisco González Sánchez - traductor
- Narrated by: Mario Fuentes Bajo
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
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Cuando nos rodean los muros, la aventura de toda una vida quizá consista en franquearlos. El regreso de Murakami a la novela después de La muerte del...
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Interesante
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La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
- Narrated by: Mario Fuentes Bajo
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-18-24
- Language: Spanish
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色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年
- By: 村上 春樹
- Narrated by: 向井 理
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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多崎つくる、鉄道の駅をつくるのが仕事。名古屋での高校時代、四人の男女の親友と完璧な調和を成す関係を結んでいたが、大学時代のある日突然、四人から絶縁を申し渡された。
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detailed expression
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色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年
- Narrated by: 向井 理
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-14-23
- Language: Japanese
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Novelist as a Vocation
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Haruki Murakami’s myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with listeners what he thinks about being a novelist....
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Love Murakami - Struggled with this Narrator
- By Harry Bartle on 11-30-22
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Novelist as a Vocation
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Kafka en la orilla
- By: Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes - Traductor
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet, David Morales
- Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
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Una versión inusitada de la tragedia clásica pasada por el tamiz de una sensibilidad moderna y salpicada de referencias culturales contemporáneas, sensualidad...
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Me encantó
- By Alexandra Maribel Rico Méndez on 04-12-25
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Kafka en la orilla
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet, David Morales
- Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-21-24
- Language: Spanish
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance....
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The ending - are they going to live happely ever efter or did Yumiyoshi die?’
- By Amazon Customer on 07-27-24
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Dance Dance Dance
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Series: Rat, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Eric Loren
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Growing up in the suburbs in postwar Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child....
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Narrated by: Eric Loren
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-11-21
- Language: English
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
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In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he opens a circle of mysterious circumstances....
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A Masterpiece and A Good Novel To Start
- By Elif Kaya on 10-18-18
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
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