
Mina's Matchbox
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
“A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent."—New York Times Book Review
“Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.”—Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion—Tomoko’s dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family’s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko’s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.
In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko’s life. Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand—her uncle’s mysterious absences, her great-aunt’s experience of the Second World War, her aunt’s misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time—and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.
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Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, The New Yorker, and BookPage
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- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
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Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
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Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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Intriguing
- De Curtis Hawk en 03-14-25
De: Ben H. Winters
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Master of Salt & Bones
- De: Keri Lake
- Narrado por: Stefanie Kay, Ryan West
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.
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5 STARS
- De AudioObsessed en 03-12-23
De: Keri Lake
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Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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The House on the Water
- A Novella
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Taylor Schilling
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.
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Wonderful Story
- De David M. Wilcox en 12-04-20
De: Margot Hunt
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2)
- De: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.
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Contrary to common reviews
- De Karen en 05-21-21
De: Shirtaloon, y otros
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Brain Damage
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- De Jennifer Chichester en 09-16-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
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Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
De: Amy Herzog
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The Grandmother
- De: Jane E. James
- Narrado por: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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Not too outlandish
- De Jackie H en 12-14-24
De: Jane E. James
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Revenge
- Eleven Dark Tales
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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Maybe, more Gray then Dark?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-28-14
De: Yoko Ogawa
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- De: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrado por: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
- De Booky Nooky en 12-13-19
De: Yoko Ogawa, y otros
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
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The Wonder Of Kindness & Connection
- De Sara en 06-16-16
De: Yoko Ogawa
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Moshi Moshi
- De: Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda - translator
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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Yoshie's much-loved musician father died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimokitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents, that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying—unsuccessfully—to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message through these dreams?
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The story is good but the performance is lacking
- De Juliana en 10-24-24
De: Banana Yoshimoto, y otros
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Alexandra Bailey
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.
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- De mz en 01-03-19
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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Catalina
- A Novel
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies.
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Monotone delivery
- De Patricia M Hart en 11-01-24
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Revenge
- Eleven Dark Tales
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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Maybe, more Gray then Dark?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-28-14
De: Yoko Ogawa
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The Memory Police
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- De: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrado por: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
- De Booky Nooky en 12-13-19
De: Yoko Ogawa, y otros
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
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The Wonder Of Kindness & Connection
- De Sara en 06-16-16
De: Yoko Ogawa
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Moshi Moshi
- De: Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda - translator
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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Yoshie's much-loved musician father died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimokitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents, that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying—unsuccessfully—to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message through these dreams?
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The story is good but the performance is lacking
- De Juliana en 10-24-24
De: Banana Yoshimoto, y otros
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Alexandra Bailey
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.
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- De mz en 01-03-19
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Catalina
- A Novel
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies.
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Monotone delivery
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The Empusium
- A Health Resort Horror Story
- De: Olga Tokarczuk
- Narrado por: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Natasha Soudek
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September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.
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Never ending Misogyny
- De Nina O en 10-11-24
De: Olga Tokarczuk
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My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change.
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Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
- A Novel
- De: Natsuko Imamura, Lucy North - translator
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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Almost every afternoon, the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on the same park bench, where she eats a cream bun while the local children make a game of trying to get her attention. Unbeknownst to her, she is being watched—by the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who is always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes, what she eats, whom she speaks to.
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Wild
- De Anna Christine en 07-27-22
De: Natsuko Imamura, y otros
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The Repeat Room
- A Novel
- De: Jesse Ball
- Narrado por: Erik Bloomquist
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant's lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.
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Strange, unsettling, powerful
- De PJE en 02-06-25
De: Jesse Ball
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The Strange Library
- De: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 1 h y 1 m
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Listeners will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written.
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Wicked Fairy Tale
- De Tim en 12-24-15
De: Haruki Murakami, y otros
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Life Ceremony
- Stories
- De: Sayaka Murata
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With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.
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Interesting concept but boring story
- De Roberta Marques en 09-06-24
De: Sayaka Murata
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Violets
- De: Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of '90s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a magazine photographer.
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You will cry it’s so dull
- De Rockinpickles8 en 09-05-23
De: Kyung-Sook Shin, y otros
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Someone Like Us
- A Novel
- De: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrado por: Junior Nyong'o
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush’s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth.
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I did not enjoy this
- De MarcB en 09-17-24
De: Dinaw Mengestu
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The Anthropologists
- De: Aysegül Savas
- Narrado por: Kathryn Aboya
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”
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Can't say it's good
- De Moraz en 12-22-24
De: Aysegül Savas
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Lessons for Survival
- Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”
- De: Emily Raboteau
- Narrado por: Emily Raboteau
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and ways her children may safely play in city parks while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. She ventures abroad to learn from indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community discovers the most intimate meanings of resilience. Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black women/motherhood, and to the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature.
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A Book for Our Time
- De Janet G. Zinn en 03-24-24
De: Emily Raboteau
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Greta & Valdin
- A Novel
- De: Rebecca K Reilly
- Narrado por: Natalie Beran, Jackson Bliss, Eilidh Beaton, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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It’s been a year since his ex-boyfriend dumped him and moved from Auckland to Buenos Aires, and Valdin is doing fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta, a good career where his colleagues only occasionally remind him that he is the sole Maaori person in the office, and a good friend who he only sleeps with when he’s sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and he’s thrown back in his former lover’s orbit, Valdin is forced to confront the feelings he’s been trying to ignore—and the future he wants.
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strange narrating choices
- De Barbara S en 02-21-24
De: Rebecca K Reilly
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Tokyo Ueno Station
- A Novel
- De: Yu Miri, Morgan Giles
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.
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Goods story, great translation, poor narration
- De Rose en 12-04-20
De: Yu Miri, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mina's Matchbox
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- Denise Meagles
- 12-15-24
Simple and Profound
The prose was fantastic. The character development was very inspiring. This book will stay with you. You will have fond memories when you experience the strike of a match or come across a colorful matchbox.
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- 09-03-24
Very Enjoyable
This is a story of a short period in a young girls life when she, Tomoko, begins to understand the complexities of relationships. There are a lot of emotions that are too big for words and too great for a 13 year old to fully comprehend. I adored her relationship with her precocious cousin Mina. This book did not have the suspense and depth of The Memory Police but It was wonderfully visual. Imagining Mina as she rode to school on her pygmy hippo was a highlight.
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- Madeleine Homan
- 11-24-24
Not a Page Turner
It is something to see the world through the eyes of a young girl. The details about culture, time and place paint a picture I will keep with me. The narrator sounds like she has cotton balls in her mouth, but I ended up warming to her odd speech patterns. Worth the listen, but this is real literature, not written to keep you on the edge of your seat.
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- Susan Altman
- 09-18-24
The sweetness of the story
This was a foray into gentleness. A departure from most modern literature. It would be appreciated in any country world wise. All ages also would enjoy this book and its audio reading.
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- NYC mom
- 11-03-24
Enchanting story
At first I wasn’t sure I would enjoy this novel, but soon I was under its spell. The family and the world conjured by Ogawa seem both magical and true. Who would like it? I can’t imagine who would not.
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- Barbara Duno
- 12-30-24
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The narrator had a soothing voice. The house was like a character in the book
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Historia
- Peter Galvin
- 02-10-25
I never found the point of the story
This book was disappointing. It had strong reviews and I’m not sure why. The redeeming part is the author does a good job writing from the voice of a child, who is seeing many things for the first time.
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Historia
- nyc2cents
- 10-12-24
Boring and so many loose ends
I hate to diss a book but I am tired of reading books that have 4-5 stars only to find they are mediocre at best.
This book has a few charming moments and even a couple touching moments but it is the story of a young neice whose father has died and whose mother goes to school to become a seamstress. There is not enough money for the daughter too, so she goes to live with her tremendously wealthy aunt and uncle and family.
I won’t go into the story but the nagging question from the start is why the aunt and uncle can’t help financially to the mother??!!
So on and so forth. Many other loose ends.
The saving grace of this book is a glimpse into the ability to communicate emotions in the quiet Japanese culture that avoids displays of emotion or direct conversation.
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