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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10,094
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,921
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I've never read a book quite like this one
- By Joey on 04-23-12
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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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Kafka on the Shore
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,545
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,060
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,055
A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....
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A seemingly schizophrenic odyssey
- By Ben Drexl on 04-22-20
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,750
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,268
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force - and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fantastical story, poor choices by narrator
- By Diana on 03-18-16
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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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Norwegian Wood
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,904
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,678
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,683
A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful, Wistful...
- By Douglas on 02-18-16
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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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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 912
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Human Wonder and the End of my Patience.
- By Kindle Customer on 01-08-20
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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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Men Without Women
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 932
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 827
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Story4 out of 5 stars 828
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a place to start with Murakami
- By Golanka on 06-20-17
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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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A Wild Sheep Chase
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 967
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 972
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magic realism just the way I like it from Murakami
- By Chris Abraham on 01-04-14
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Series: Rat, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-06-13
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,100
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Full Canvas from the Master Painter
- By Joe Kraus on 11-16-18
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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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Wind/Pinball
- Two Novels
- By: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 394
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Story4 out of 5 stars 359
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must For Murakami Fans
- By Jay Quintana on 08-23-15
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Wind/Pinball
- Two Novels
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Series: Rat, Book 1-2
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-04-15
- Language: English
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After Dark
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 508
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4 out of 5 stars 398
Here is a short, sleek novel of encounters, set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn. At its center are two sisters....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing book, Poor Narration
- By Ellen Clary on 07-27-08
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After Dark
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-12-07
- Language: English
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Underground
- The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 236
In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just as you breathe, you dream your story
- By Darwin8u on 08-26-15
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Underground
- The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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First Person Singular
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 257
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4 out of 5 stars 216
From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Murakami novel ruined by the wrong narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-21
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First Person Singular
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-06-21
- Language: English
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
- A novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Bruce Locke
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,212
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,213
The new novel - a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan - from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story. Odd dialogue narration
- By nonna on 12-02-15
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
- A novel
- Narrated by: Bruce Locke
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-12-14
- Language: English
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hated this book, all five stars of it.
- By Robert on 09-04-17
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-15-13
- Language: English
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Eric Loren
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 643
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Story4 out of 5 stars 565
In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a man's life - with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment - becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A River of Unmindfulness
- By Darwin8u on 10-12-13
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Eric Loren
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-08-13
- Language: English
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Ellen Archer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 121
The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic, just like how all Murakami books are
- By MM on 05-05-15
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Ellen Archer
- Series: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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The Elephant Vanishes
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum - translator, Jay Rubin - translator
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher, John Chancer, Walter Lewis, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4 out of 5 stars 162
By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretty bad
- By Douglas on 09-26-19
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The Elephant Vanishes
- Stories
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher, John Chancer, Walter Lewis, Rupert Degas, Tim Flavin, Mark Heenehan, Jeff Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-06-13
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,891
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,165
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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After the Quake
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher, Adam Sims
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of its existential fragility....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A short story collection full of wonder and magic
- By Somewhat Dangerous on 08-24-20
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After the Quake
- Stories
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher, Adam Sims
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-07-14
- Language: English
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Norwegian Wood
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nostalgia
- By bini vinod on 12-05-20
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Norwegian Wood
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-29-20
- Language: English
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