Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Featured Article: The Best Contemporary Fiction Authors to Listen to Now
Contemporary authors have produced some of the best books of all time. Often poignant, or full of social commentary, these works of fiction can range in genre and theme. Whether science fiction, drama, mystery, or something else altogether, these great works of fiction showcase amazing authors with a talent for contemporary storytelling. We've compiled a list of some of the most exciting and impressive contemporary authors of the 21st and 20th centuries to dive into for your next listen.
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Danse, danse, danse
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Corinne Atlan - traducteur
- Narrated by: Jérémy Bardeau
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Surtout n'arrêtez jamais de danser... À la suite d'une série de rêves, un journaliste free-lance désabusé part à la recherche...
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Danse, danse, danse
- Narrated by: Jérémy Bardeau
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-10
- Language: French
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- Written 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 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Adore Murakami but Kirby was annoying
- By Team Awesomeness on 2019-09-09
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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La Cité aux murs incertains
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Hélène Morita
- Narrated by: Olivier Martinaud
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Le retour de l'auteur japonais le plus lu en France. Parution le 2 janvier 2025 Evènement!!! Le grand retour du maître Murakami pour un roman éblouissant...
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La Cité aux murs incertains
- Narrated by: Olivier Martinaud
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2025-01-02
- Language: French
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1Q84
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 358
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4 out of 5 stars 320
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Soft porn pretentiousness
- By Madeleine on 2019-03-08
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1Q84
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-25
- Language: English
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his listeners will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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long-winded and boring
- By Vic on 2024-12-09
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-19
- Language: English
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Tokio blues. Norwegian Wood
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes - traductor
- Narrated by: Jaime Soler
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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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...
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Tokio blues. Norwegian Wood
- Narrated by: Jaime Soler
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-23
- Language: Spanish
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Kafka on the Shore
- Written 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 230
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 193
A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books I have ever read!
- By Adriano Pereira on 2020-09-07
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Kafka on the Shore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-06
- Language: English
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunate voicing
- By Ed White on 2018-01-14
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-03
- Language: English
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- A Novel
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Eric Loren
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Such a disappointment
- By Graeme on 2019-12-01
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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: 2013-10-08
- Language: English
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Hear the Wind Sing
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan....
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Hear the Wind Sing
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Series: Rat, Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-04
- Language: English
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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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Great, but..
- By St. Thomas on 2021-01-12
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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: 2018-06-12
- Language: English
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La Fin des temps
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Corinne Atlan
- Narrated by: Laurent Natrella
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Un roman qui concentre à lui seul tout le réalisme magique de Haruki Murakami. Dans une petite cité spectrale vivent des gens...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Très belle expérience d'écoute
- By Momo on 2023-04-19
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La Fin des temps
- Narrated by: Laurent Natrella
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-12
- Language: French
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- A Novel
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back....
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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: 2013-08-06
- Language: English
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1Q84 - Livre 1, Avril-Juin
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Dekoninck, Maia Baran
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Le passé - tel qu'il était peut-être - fait surgir sur le miroir l'ombre d'un présent - différent de ce qu'il fut ?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insolite
- By Anonymous User on 2021-08-16
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1Q84 - Livre 1, Avril-Juin
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Dekoninck, Maia Baran
- Series: 1Q84, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-05
- Language: French
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Norwegian Wood
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Story
- By Pascal.V on 2018-12-02
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Norwegian Wood
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-03
- Language: English
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1Q84 - Livre 2, Juillet-Septembre
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Maia Baran, Emmanuel Dekoninck
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Les choses qui restent enfermées dans notre cœur n'existent pas en ce monde. Mais c'est dans notre cœur, ce monde à part, qu'elles se construisent pour y vivre...
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1Q84 - Livre 2, Juillet-Septembre
- Narrated by: Maia Baran, Emmanuel Dekoninck
- Series: 1Q84, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-29
- Language: French
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Underground
- The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful look at a tragic incident
- By Roberta W on 2022-05-29
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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: 2013-09-03
- Language: English
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Wind/Pinball
- Two Novels
- Written 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 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time....
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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: 2015-08-04
- Language: English
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- Written 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 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Nuria on 2018-03-20
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-09
- Language: English
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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....
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-15
- Language: English
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