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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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K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.
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Satellites of Love
- By Darwin8u on 05-28-15
By: Haruki Murakami
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Tokio blues. Norwegian Wood
- By: Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes - traductor
- Narrated by: Jaime Soler
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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La obra más exitosa de Haruki Murakami. Un conmovedora historia sobre la juventud, los primeros amores y el dolor que implica el paso a la madurez. Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha una vieja canción de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de los años sesenta. Con una mezcla de melancolía y desasosiego, Toru recuerda entonces a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor y único amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki.
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Maravilloso libro!!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-24-24
By: Haruki Murakami, and others
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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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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
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What's better than Murakami? More Murakami
- By Dr. Curmudgeon on 04-11-14
By: Haruki Murakami
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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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We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world—a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves.
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I used to like Murakami
- By MaRinLha on 11-21-24
By: Haruki Murakami, and others
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No Longer Human
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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Bad narrator
- By maggie on 11-16-24
By: Osamu Dazai
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- Alexander Dobrev
- 02-28-23
Weird performance
I find narrating Murakami with such a heavy American accent rather weird. What makes things even worse is the way female characters are voiced. Before this title, I actually thought I'm quite accustomed to listening to fiction, but this will just scratch Murakami Audible for me.
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- Sirkka-Liisa Rautioaho
- 05-27-23
Very enjoyable!
This was my first Murakami but won’t be the last!
The tale was so effortless and easygoing, very intense without being forcefull in any manner.
The characters were as complicated and multi-faceted as people in real life are. I have a bona fide Midori in my social circles.
I went to Japan in 1979 and listening about the location brought back fond memories.
Performance was great too. Couldn’t have been a more approoriate voice for the lead guy, was it Watanabe, but all the other voices the reader used were just as fitting!
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- KalmarSheryl
- 09-18-23
What can I say?
I love Haruki Murakami. Love him. However, because of the narration I couldn’t make it through the book. The whining and sarcastic tone of the narrator made no sense to me. I stopped listening but because of my adoration of Murakami I tried to be tolerant and gave it a second chance. After about 15 minutes I just couldn’t do it. It was like nails against a chalkboard for me. I even feel awful just complaining about this and because of my own lack of tolerance couldn’t listen to the rest of a very compelling story. The story was butchered by the narrator and I’m not sure why he should have read this story with a sarcastic and di standup tone of voice. Anyway, if unlike me you are able to listen to the narrator, I would highly recommend this book. Murakami never disappoints. As for myself, I will continue reading the book myself.
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- Didem Kurtoglu Sahin
- 09-30-23
Dissapointing narration
This is my second Murakami on Audible. Did not enjoy the narration at all. It was monotone.
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- 12-05-20
Nostalgia
Autobiographical and full of memories of growing up. The depth and ease of his narration are amazing.
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- UCHENNA
- 07-07-22
TO BE FORGOTTEN IS TO DIE.
I have put off listening to this book because I wanted to read a physical copy of it. But since I could not wait any longer, I plunged into its abyss. The characters in this book have one simple desire, to be remembered. And yet, they do everything in their power to be forgotten. And some succeeded.
I enjoyed this book, and I look forward to indulging its physical copy when I get back to Beijing. But until then, I will hold onto all of her citizens for as long as I can.
Thank you H.M.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-23-24
Liked so much! I cried!
I liked the caracters and so beautiful idea of the book. It kept me reading all the time. I liked the voice of reader too. Decided to read all Murakami books.
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