Japanese Magical Realism
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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
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
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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
- A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....
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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
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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. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
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- 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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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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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set
- Written by: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrated by: Arina Ii, Kevin Shen
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set. Step inside Tokyo’s whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set
- Narrated by: Arina Ii, Kevin Shen
- Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-13
- Language: English
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set....
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First Person Singular
- Stories
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist. 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.
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First Person Singular
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-06
- Language: English
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From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist....
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
- A Novel
- Written by: Laura Imai Messina
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As news of the phone booth spreads, people travel to it from miles around.
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-09
- Language: English
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The international best-selling novel sold in 21 countries about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami....
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The Tatami Galaxy
- A Novel
- Written by: Tomihiko Morimi
- Narrated by: Andrew Grace
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After rebelling against the dictatorial jock president of the film club, he and his worst and only friend, the diabolical creep Ozu, are personas non grata on campus. For two years, our protagonist has made all the wrong decisions, and now he's about to make another mistake. He and Ozu are preparing for revenge—a fireworks attack at the film club's welcoming party for new members.
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The Tatami Galaxy
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Andrew Grace
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-06
- Language: English
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An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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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. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.
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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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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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Catfish Rolling
- Written by: Clara Kumagai
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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There's a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls, the land rises and falls. At least, that's what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live near the most powerful of these "zones"—the places where time has been irrevocably sped up, or slowed down. When high school ends, and her best friend leaves for university, Sora finds herself stuck and increasingly alone. She begins secretly conducting her own research, tracking down a time expert in Tokyo.
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Catfish Rolling
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-03
- Language: English
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There's a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls, the land rises and falls. At least, that's what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself....
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
- Written by: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Narrated by: Bernardo De Paula
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
- Narrated by: Bernardo De Paula
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-08
- Language: English
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This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather....
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- A Novel
- Written by: Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It's also run by talking cats.
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- A Novel
- Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-08-20
- Language: English
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Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it's never too late to follow our stars....
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
- Written by: Sanaka Hiiragi
- Length: 7 hrs
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This is the story of the peculiar and magical photo studio owned by Mr. Hirasaki, a collector of antique cameras. In the dimly lit interior, a paper background is pulled down in front of a wall, and in front of it stands a single, luxurious chair with an armrest on one side. On a stand is a large bellows camera. On the left is the main studio; photos can also be taken in the courtyard. Beyond its straightforward interior, however, is a secret. The studio is, in fact, the door to the afterlife, the place between life and death where those who have departed have a chance—one last time.
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 2024-09-17
- Language: English
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From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife.
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
- Written by: Sachiko Kashiwaba, Avery Fischer Udagawa - translator
- Narrated by: Nanako Vera Mizushima
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled pasts.
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
- Narrated by: Nanako Vera Mizushima
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-16
- Language: English
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From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award-winning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake disaster....
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Cuentos de hadas japoneses
- Written by: Grace James
- Narrated by: Marina Viñals
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista. Cuentos de tradición oral que han pasado a lo largo de los siglos de la boca de las abuelas a los sueños de sus nietos y nietas, siempre de corte fantástico, siempre con enseñanzas profundas y siempre portando la esencia de la identidad japonesa a través de su tradición.
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Cuentos de hadas japoneses
- Narrated by: Marina Viñals
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-06
- Language: Spanish
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Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista....
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