Strange Weather in Tokyo
A Novel
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, 38, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei", in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is 30 years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy, which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.
Photo credit: ©Hisaji Hara and Natsumi Hayashi
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Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of 10 remarkable women who have loved him. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, 10 women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De Rose en 08-08-21
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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Convenience Store Woman
- De: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 3 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,744
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Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Am amazing and different story
- De D.R. en 04-10-19
De: Sayaka Murata, y otros
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 139
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Goods story, great translation, poor narration
- De Rose en 12-04-20
De: Yu Miri, y otros
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Kitchen
- De: Banana Yoshimoto
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Time is the Charm
- De just asking for some common sense en 08-22-19
De: Banana Yoshimoto
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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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4 out of 5 stars
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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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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
- De: Kikuko Tsumura, Polly Barton - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I LOVED it
- De Rose en 09-29-21
De: Kikuko Tsumura, y otros
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Sweet Bean Paste
- De: Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De irenerosem en 03-18-25
De: Durian Sukegawa, y otros
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Heaven
- A Novel
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Scott Keiji Takeda
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 363
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De Anthony en 07-30-21
De: Mieko Kawakami
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Breasts and Eggs
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Breasts & Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful Writing and Performance
- De Noelle en 03-01-21
De: Mieko Kawakami
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How Do You Live
- De: Genzaburo Yoshino, Bruno Navasky, Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, 15, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pure joy
- De greta shlafmitz en 01-09-22
De: Genzaburo Yoshino, y otros
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Marigold Mind Laundry
- A Novel
- De: Jungeun Yun, Shanna Tan - translator
- Narrado por: Sofia Jin
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to remove the deepest pain from our hearts. Jieun listens while customers share their unhappy memories. As they speak, she transfers their sadness onto T-shirts as stains. After a spin in the washing machine, the stains become flower petals that soar into the air, and Jieun’s customers find solace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes finding what we want, means letting go of everything.
- De Rebecca A. Frager en 01-29-25
De: Jungeun Yun, y otros
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The Easy Life in Kamusari
- Forest, Book 1
- De: Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wanted it to be a true story
- De Scott en 05-19-22
De: Shion Miura, y otros
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
- De: Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel
- Narrado por: George Blagden
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 814
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With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe. With his crooked tail - a sign of good fortune - and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a wonderful story
- De V. Brown en 11-22-18
De: Hiro Arikawa, 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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 992
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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The Wonder Of Kindness & Connection
- De Sara en 06-16-16
De: Yoko Ogawa
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Diary of a Void
- A Novel
- De: Emi Yagi, David Boyd - translator, Lucy North - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 53
When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace—a manufacturer of cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups—because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. Except Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. But she has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with every stage of her “pregnancy,” the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.
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1 out of 5 stars
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whiny lost woman
- De Pam Haynes en 12-01-23
De: Emi Yagi, y otros
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- De: Sayaka Murata
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 562
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing but disturbing
- De C. Parham en 01-01-21
De: Sayaka Murata
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- Summer Storm ML
- 03-29-25
Great Story
I really like the story itself, but the narrator is so robotic it makes the character lack emotion.
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- j. grant
- 04-17-23
Lovely story
Lovely written story and a great narrator. It was a bit slow, but endearing.
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- M. Rogers
- 07-14-24
enjoyed. not my usual
overall good story and we used together time and characters in an interesting way. I'm just starting to get into this kind of book and I enjoyed it.
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- James K. Eckmann
- 12-11-22
read this gentle love story
well written excellent flow fascinating unusual story. quick fun read. wholeheartedly recommend for anyone
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- Craig
- 03-11-24
Beautifully written work about life
This book was a great listen it so masterfully takes us through the daily interactions of two people who need each other so very much. Love has no bounds.
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- BenYL
- 03-16-21
Loved it
The whole book has the sensibility of haiku. It’s distilled, delicate, sensual, deep, tender, subtle. The narrator was perfect for the part & I’m already planning to relisten to it soon.
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- Paula de la Cruz
- 03-09-24
Very charming
Story about an unusual romance between an elderly professor and her former student, told through the seasons in Tokyo. The descriptions are very colourful and overall this book gave me a sense of peace.
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- A. Hawley
- 08-02-23
A Little Too Cool for Me
I thought that this was OK. I found the voice to be a little too distant for my taste. It didn't help that I didn't particularly care for either of the mains.
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- mz
- 01-02-19
Cozy Love Story and Leisure Time in Japan
A cute and warm story of love between two people aged 30 years apart. Cozy food and drinks in the odenya, mushroom hunting in the forest in Tochigi, Kappabashi the kitchenware district, high school reunion, island inn, ... the book takes us into the average Japanese person's leisure life outside of work. Every moment in the book is after work or on the weekends, giving the book a relaxed setting that is easy to read on.
I've listened to the book twice in a row. It's a nice leisurely listen, especially if you are interested in Japanese daily life, Japanese food, culture, nature, or quiet and gradual romance.
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- annygries
- 04-21-21
Beautiful descriptions, lackluster characters
I read this book since it was on a list of books that describe Japanese scenery well. It certainly accomplished that with equally delicious sounding food. The story though was 5ish hours, and after 3 hours I was ready for it to end. The two main characters are nothing special and rather dull.
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