Haruki Murakami has 33 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 43 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 914 ratings. The most-rated is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
After the Quake
Summary
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 the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman. An electronics salesman who has been abruptly deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package - and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who has been raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may or may not be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. As haunting as dreams, as potent as oracles, the stories in After the Quake are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.
©2007 Haruki Murakami (P)2014 Random House Audio
Baby random 1
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L'imprévu pourrait être sa plus belle surprise ! Il est 10h30 quand son patron arrive au café dans lequel travaille Célia. Il lui fait un sourire et l'invite une fois de plus à dîner. Mais Max est Français, et la réputation des Français pour briser les cœurs n'est plus à faire... Quelle excuse va-t-elle pouvoir trouver pour l'éviter ? Et si elle mettait ses préjugés de côté, Célia ne serait-elle pas surprise ? Il est 11h05. Célia est debout derrière sa caisse. Il va arriver, elle le sait. Il vient tous les jours depuis un an, toujours à la même heure. Il ne dit pas bonjour, ne sourit pas, ne la regarde pas et commande toujours la même chose. Célia se maudit de n'être qu'une petite serveuse dans le décor de cet homme d'affaires. Pourquoi aurait-il envie de la regarder, après tout ? Et si le sort décidait de se mêler de la vie amoureuse de Célia Fowell et de tout renverser sur son passage telle une tornade dans un magasin de porcelaine ?
©2018 Hugo Roman (P)2020 Audible Studios
Short Stories
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23 stories, all unabridged, from a diverse group of star writers and readers. A truly memorable collection with a wide appeal. The stories in this superb collection are as follows: Mothers and Fathers - Angela Huth, Read by Janet McTeerShared Credit - Frederic Raphael, Read by Martin Jarvis The Year?s Midnight - Helen Simpson, Read by Harriet WalterA Place for Everything - Barry Unsworth, Read by Janet McTeerThe Ghost of the Rain Forest - Barry Unsworth, Read by Rosalind AyresA Feeling for Birds - Lisa St Aubin de Teran, Read by Janet McTeer Battlefields - Alan Sillitoe, Read by Janet McTeer Who? - Fay Weldon, Read by Julie Christie Mrs Alcott Dances Naked in the Rain - Rosie Thomas, Read by Janet McTeer Presto Barbaro - Ronald Frame, Read by Janet McTeer Sea Lion - Douglas Hurd, Read by Martin Jarvis The Sons of Upland Farm - George Mackay Brown, Read by Martin Jarvis Dressing Up - Angela Huth, Read by Rosalind Ayres Twenty Years - Doris Lessing, Read by Rosalind Ayres Humphrey's Mother - Penelope Mortimer, Read by Martin Jarvis The Hero - Joanna Trollope, Read by Martin Jarvis Shreds and Slivers - Ruth Rendell, Read by Martin Jarvis Brut Millésimé - Ludovic Kennedy, Read by Rosalind Ayres On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning - Haruki Murakami, Read by Walter Lewis Baglady - A.S. Byatt, Read by Rosalind Ayres Hotel des Voyageurs - William Boyd, Read by Martin Jarvis Toy Boy - Edwina Currie, Read by Rosalind Ayres Simon - Patrick O?Brian, Read by Martin Jarvis
Public Domain (P)2006 CSA Telltapes Ltd.
La Fin des temps
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Un roman qui concentre à lui seul tout le réalisme magique de Haruki Murakami. Dans une petite cité spectrale vivent des gens privés d'ombre et de sentiments. Parmi eux, un nouveau venu a pour tâche de lire les "vieux rêves" dans des crânes de licornes, attrapant des fragments de mémoire d'une autre vie, d'une autre dimension. En parallèle, dans un Tokyo futur, ascétique et déshumanisé, un homme est entraîné par un scientifique dans une dangereuse expérience qui le fera plonger dans les sous-sols de la ville, animés de créature monstrueuses. Est-ce là que se trouve la clé de l'énigme ? La solution du mystère qui lie ces deux mondes ? La Fin des temps est le quatrième roman de Haruki Murakami, où se mêlent délicieusement, avec humour et poésie, deux mondes entre réel et merveilleux, le "Pays des merveilles sans merci" et la "Fin du monde"...
©1985 / 1992 Titre original : "SEKAI NO OWARI TO HADOBOIRUDO WANDARANDO" publié par Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd., Tokyo / Haruki Murakami. Tous droits réservés. / Éditions du Seuil, pour la traduction française. Traduit par Corinne Atlan (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Des hommes sans femmes
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Dans ce recueil comme un clin d'œil à Hemingway, des hommes cherchent des femmes qui les abandonnent ou qui sont sur le point de le faire. Musique, solitude, rêve et mélancolie, le maître au sommet de son art. "Ce que je veux aborder avec ce recueil ? En un mot, l'isolement, et ses conséquences émotionnelles." Des hommes sans femmes en est l'illustration concrète.
©2017 Belfond (P)2017 Éditions Thélème
Saules aveugles, femme endormie
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Jubilatoires, flamboyantes, hypnotiques, ces histoires courtes de Haruki Murakami nous plongent dans un univers délicieusement insolite et drôle, où d'une situation d'apparence anodine peuvent surgir à tout moment le fantastique et l'absurde. Des petits contes de notre quotidien, transfigurés par la poésie, l'humour et la grâce de Haruki Murakami, un charme qui agit à chaque page, comme autant de feux d'artifices en plein jour. Des petits contes de notre quotidien, transfigurés par la poésie, l'humour et la grâce de Haruki Murakami, un charme qui agit à chaque page, comme autant de feux d'artifices en plein jour.
©2005 . Tous droits réservésEt pour la traduction française Belfond, un département de Place des Editeurs, 2008. Traduit du japonais par Hélène Morita et (P)200 9
Pinball, 1973
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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. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) and is the second novel written by Murakami.
©2015 Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (P)2015 Random House Audio
Les amants du Spoutnik
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"Quand on parle de l'amour, il n'y a guère de réalité. Comment se manifeste-t-il, sous quelle forme, sous quelle métaphore, voilà le plus important." Haruki Murakami
©2004 Belfond (P)2011 Éditions Thélème
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
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By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element. Andrew Lam's "The Palmist", performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy. Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt", performed by Stephen Colbert. A room which can take you anywhere in the world - sometimes with dangerous consequences W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw", performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers. Saki's "The Occasional Garden", performed by Daniel Gerroll. If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent one. Donald Barthelme's "The Balloon", performed by Maria Tucci. There's something suddenly in the sky in midtown Manhattan.... Kevin Brockmeier's "The Year of Silence", performed by Anthony Rapp. What if everything went quiet? Jonathan Safran Foer's "The Sixth Borough", performed by Jerry Zaks. Yes, New York had a Sixth Borough, but it drifted away.... Aimee Bender's "Drunken Mimi", performed by Bernadette Quigley. A romance between a mermaid and an imp. Haruki Murakami's "The Little Green Monster", performed by Dana Ivey. A piece of Murakami magic: Is this a monster I see before me? T. C. Boyle's "Swept Away", performed by René Auberjonois. This story's weather forecast: Very windy and very funny.
©2009 Symphony Space (P)2009 Symphony Space
Die Pilgerjahre des farblosen Herrn Tazaki
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Tsukuru ist Teil einer Clique, deren Mitglieder alle außer ihm eine Farbe im Namen tragen. Als er nach der Oberschule die Heimatstadt Nagoya verlässt, um in Tokio zu studieren, tut das der Freundschaft keinen Abbruch. Zumindest nicht bis zu jenem Tag, an dem Tsukuru voller Vorfreude auf gemeinsame Ferien nach Hause kommt, seine Freunde ihn jedoch plötzlich schneiden. Völlig verzweifelt kehrt er nach Tokio zurück, wo er ein halbes Jahr am Rande des Selbstmords verbringt. Viele Jahre später offenbart sich der inzwischen 36-Jährige seiner neuen Freundin Sara. Sie ermutigt ihn dazu, sich den Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen.
©2014 DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Köln (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg
First Person Singular
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“Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” (The Wall Street Journal) A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist.
©2021 Haruki Murakami (P)2021 Random House Audio
Hear the Wind Sing
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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, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the Trilogy of the Rat, a series of independent novels that include Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, followed by the epilogue Dance Dance Dance.
©2015 Random House Audio; 2015 Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen
Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids
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Devotions written as if Jesus is speaking directly to a child's heart. Based on the original Jesus Calling, this version has been adapted in a language and fashion that kids and tweens can relate to their everyday lives. After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down what she believed he was saying to her through Scripture. Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her devotionals. They are written from Jesus’ point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling. It is Sarah’s fervent prayer that our Savior may bless young listeners with his presence and his peace in ever deeper measure. Meets national education standards.
©2010 Sarah Young (P)2020 Thomas Nelson