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  • Norwegian Wood

  • Written by: Haruki Murakami
  • Narrated by: Adam Sims
  • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (301 ratings)

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Norwegian Wood

Written by: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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Publisher's Summary

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

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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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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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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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You live it, experience it, witness it in the world he created

Murukami holds you and takes you to a journey. It’s a fiction, but no more once you start reading it. You live it, experience it, witness it in the world he created. You get so absorbed, you can’t distinguish either you’re reading the book or the book is reading you. You think, rethink and lost in thoughts. You experience it so vividly it makes permanent impression on you.

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I dunno how I felt after finishing it

it's a book for fucked up people with fucked up characters :)
just torture yourself through.

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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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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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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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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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