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A Quote by Haruki Murakami
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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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: 35+ Quotes About Books That Truly Speak to Bibliophiles
Novels, memoirs, short stories, essay compilations, and more continue to shape who we are and how we view the world, no matter what format—physical book, ebook, or audiobook—we use to absorb and enjoy them. Books are pathways into different worlds and different lives, and one can never be truly bored with a good book. Celebrate your literary love with these quotes about books that will inspire you to dive into your next story.
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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 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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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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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 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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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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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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1Q84
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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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complex, surreal and very very long
- By Phillip on 02-04-12
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1Q84
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-27-11
- Language: English
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La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
- By: Haruki Murakami, Juan Francisco González Sánchez - traductor
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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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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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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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ねじまき鳥クロニクル ―第1部 泥棒かささぎ編―
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「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。
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Dream that came true
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ねじまき鳥クロニクル ―第1部 泥棒かささぎ編―
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Norwegian Wood
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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.
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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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Killing Commendatore
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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
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- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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- Release date: 10-09-18
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Novelist as a Vocation
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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
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Dance Dance Dance
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- By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum - translator
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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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世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド(上)
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- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-28-22
- Language: Japanese
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Men Without Women
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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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Men Without Women
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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The Strange Library
- By: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen - translator
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Listeners will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written....
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Wicked Fairy Tale
- By Tim on 12-24-15
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The Strange Library
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 12-02-14
- Language: English
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Pinball, 1973
- By: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen - translator
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Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 is the second book in the Trilogy of the Rat series....
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not worth listening to
- By Dakini on 09-14-25
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Pinball, 1973
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Series: Rat, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-04-15
- Language: English
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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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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I'm a murakami fan but...
- By Cuban Javier Gore on 05-13-24
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-29-20
- Language: English
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