Japanese Magical Realism

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    • A Novel
    • By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Tomihiko Morimi
    • Narrated by: Andrew Grace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 619 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Laura Imai Messina
    • Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Sanaka Hiiragi
    • Narrated by: Hanako Footman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • Stories
    • By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
    • Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Karen Tei Yamashita
    • Narrated by: Bernardo De Paula
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • 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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    • By: Makoto Shinkai, Taylor Engel - translator
    • Narrated by: Brandon Engman, Ashley Boettcher
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • 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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    • By: Mai Mochizuki
    • Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
    • Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • 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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    • By: Clara Kumagai
    • Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • 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. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live near one of these “zones”....

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    • By: Hiromi Kawakami
    • Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • 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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    • By: Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
    • Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Translated from the Japanese bestseller that was adapted into a popular television series, seven struggling customers take up the unique opportunity to adopt a blanket cat . . . but only for three days, the time it’ll take for their lives to change.

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