Japanese Magical Realism
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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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Kafka Tamura runs away from home at 15, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The ageing Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people, fish tumble from the sky, a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night, a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II.
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Murakami tour de force
- By Alan Millett on 02-04-2021
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Kafka on the Shore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2020
- Language: English
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Kafka Tamura runs away from home at 15, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy....
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- By: Mai Mochizuki
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon. The protagonists of this story - a successful female scriptwriter in crisis, a heartbroken tv director, and two male entrepreneurs - all end up there in the middle of the night, in a dream-like state, and receive life-changing advice on love, work, and relationships from a cat who interprets his guests' astrological chart.
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
- Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2024
- Language: English
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Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon....
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Before Your Memory Fades
- By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the listener to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
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Favourite of the series
- By Andrea on 21-04-2024
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Before Your Memory Fades
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2022
- Language: English
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The third novel in the international best-selling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time....
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The Third Love
- By: Hiromi Kawakami
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages.
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The Third Love
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- Language: English
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Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams.
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The Tatami Galaxy
- A Novel
- 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: 06-12-2022
- 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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Weathering with You
- By: Makoto Shinkai, Taylor Engel - translator
- Narrated by: Brandon Engman, Ashley Boettcher
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power: With a single prayer, she can part the clouds and bring back the sun. But her power comes at a price, and as the weather spirals further and further out of control, they must choose what future they truly want for themselves.
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Weathering with You
- Narrated by: Brandon Engman, Ashley Boettcher
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2024
- Language: English
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Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power.
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
- 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: 16-04-2024
- 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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Before Your Memory Fades
- By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the listener to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
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Before Your Memory Fades
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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The third novel in the international best-selling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time....
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Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
- By: Mizuki Tsujimura
- Narrated by: Yuki Tejima
- Length: Not Yet Known
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When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world - at least, this is what Hirase has pieced together from his website page. Ushered into a luxury hotel to await her meeting, the Go-Between lays down the ground-rules: the reunion lasts one evening under a full moon; the dead person cannot be called back by anyone else, and may refuse to meet.
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Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
- Narrated by: Yuki Tejima
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 03-04-2025
- Language: English
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When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world....
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Cuentos de hadas japoneses
- 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: 06-04-2022
- 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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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
- 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: 08-11-2022
- 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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