Japanese Magical Realism

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    • By: Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
    • Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 55 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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    • 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 143 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,604 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 636 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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    • 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 371 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: Sanaka Hiiragi
    • Narrated by: Hanako Footman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 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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    • The Full Moon Coffee Shop, Book 1
    • By: Mai Mochizuki
    • Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
    • Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop, Book 1
    • 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: Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated by: Philip Gabriel - translation, Brian Nishii
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Haruki Murakami’s highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.

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    • By: Bob Iannone
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-25
    • Language: English
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    • Give your young reader a story to cherish. Join Takara and her beloved Grandpa Yoshi as they build a magical koi pond. When Grandpa must leave, he ...

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his listeners will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves.

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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