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Norwegian Wood

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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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 20th Century Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt

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Norwegian Wooden is true soulful story that will guide you down a truly heart breaking tale. Beautifully written and masterfully narrated.

amazing

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Enjoyed the story, but the whiney nasal narration made every character sound petulant and unpleasant

Good story, sub-par narration

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never listening to another book by this narrator. made the female voice sound so creepy and kept rushing anything that was written poetically and making it sound meaningless

narrator ruined a great book

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I recently came across this book through an app that I am subscribed to. I am so glad that I did. I was so captivated by the narration, the characters and all their own stories. I loved it!

Great Story Telling

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This may be my fourth or fifth Murikami book. while it lacked the weirdness and deep thought of others it took me on a warm and thoughtful journey. Overall it was a very sad love story and a coming of age novel at its core. As always his descriptions make you feel like you are there, I could hear the crunching of cucumbers and almost taste the soup. I feel like I know the characters so well I could sit and chat at length with them. I will miss them and only wish them the best.

to step into someone's mind is a scary thing.

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Adam Simms has some awful vocal fry. It became really grating as the novel went on.

Irritating reader

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What started as a promising book ended as a pretty random number of observations, leaving the reader wondering what the writer was hoping to tell us. Saved by the narrator, not the writer.

Not worth the time

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I enjoyed the performance. The story was good but left me feeling oddly dissatisfied. On later reflection I was ok with that.

Mixed feelings

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I enjoy murakami books and I waited a while for this one to be narrated. Unfortunately I wasn't a major fan of the narration but it didn't distract from the story once I got used to it. The story is as weird as ever, but interesting! I was intently waiting to see what happens next so that's a good sign. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for an off kilter love story

An odd love story

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3rd listen, I love it. great narrative too, Adam Sims. Murakami is the best.

3rd time round

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