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A Novel of Food and Murder
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Asako Yuzuki
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The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story
There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew, and Kajii can’t resist writing back.
Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a master class in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii, but it seems that Rika might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Do she and Kajii have more in common than she once thought?
Inspired by the real case of a convicted con woman and serial killer—the “Konkatsu Killer”—Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.
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This is the story of the peculiar and magical photo studio owned by Mr. Hirasaka, a collector of antique cameras. In the dimly lit interior, a paper background is pulled down in front of a wall, and in front of it stands a single, luxurious chair with an armrest on one side. On a stand is a large bellows camera. On the left is the main studio; photos can also be taken in the courtyard. Beyond its straightforward interior, however, is a secret. The studio is, in fact, the door to the afterlife, the place between life and death where those who have departed have a chance—one last time.
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Quiet, magical feels...a bit like Harry
- De SHES4AMWF en 03-18-25
De: Sanaka Hiiragi
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
- A Novel
- De: Michiko Aoyama
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound purpose. In Komachi’s unique book recommendations they will find just what they need to achieve their dreams.
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The power of honesty and an open mind
- De ili pika en 09-10-23
De: Michiko Aoyama
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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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A Woman of Pleasure
- De: Kiyoko Murata, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- Narrado por: Susan Momoko Hingley
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Based on real-life events in Meiji-era Japan, award-winning and critically acclaimed veteran writer Kiyoko Murata re-creates in stunning detail the brutal yet vibrant lives of women in the red-light district at the turn of the twentieth century—the bond they share, the survival skills they pass down, and the power of owning one's language.
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Loved!
- De Christian George en 05-23-24
De: Kiyoko Murata, y otros
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Kitchen
- De: Banana Yoshimoto
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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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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First Time is the Charm
- De just asking for some common sense en 08-22-19
De: Banana Yoshimoto
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The Honjin Murders
- De: Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Kawai
- Narrado por: Akira Matsumoto
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.
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Enjoyable, Some Audible issues.
- De M en 10-03-21
De: Seishi Yokomizo, y otros
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Four Seasons in Japan
- De: Nick Bradley
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway.
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Beautiful tale, setting, and narration
- De Zach en 04-09-24
De: Nick Bradley
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The Premonition
- A Novel
- De: Banana Yoshimoto
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 3 h y 29 m
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Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.
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Do not recommend
- De LS en 09-24-24
De: Banana Yoshimoto
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Piglet
- A Novel
- De: Lottie Hazell
- Narrado por: Rebekah Hinds
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always cooking.
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Revelation through Food
- De M.A. en 10-07-24
De: Lottie Hazell
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Life Ceremony
- Stories
- De: Sayaka Murata
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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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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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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Entire book is a dialogue of he said she said
- De mz en 01-03-19
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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The Vegetarian
- A Novel
- De: Han Kang
- Narrado por: Deborah Smith, Janet Song, Stephen Park
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.
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Pronunciation!
- De J L Pasricha en 03-20-16
De: Han Kang
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Green Dot
- A Novel
- De: Madeleine Gray
- Narrado por: Sasha Simon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him.
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Raw and Real
- De Shania Rea en 03-13-25
De: Madeleine Gray
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- De: Sayaka Murata
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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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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Intriguing but disturbing
- De C. Parham en 01-01-21
De: Sayaka Murata
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- Lauren P.
- 03-26-25
The narrators voice
Sublime. I want to listen to every audiobook read by this narrator. Also genuinely one of the most satisfying books to listen to.
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- john w straus
- 11-18-24
Interesting look at societal pressure in Japan
Not sure what to make of this book. The first part is a sharp and interesting look at Japanese work culture and gender relations. The second part kind of drifts into a saccharine feel good story reminiscent of the Goonies where a group of misfits crowning achievement is cooking a turkey without getting food poisoning.
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- Nosizwe Martin
- 12-29-24
Rice with butter and soy is a taste revelation!
This book is worth every minute of your listening, not only about the interesting case in question and the maddening and complex Manako Kaji, but I love the self revelation that Rika explores, and how she becomes a strong and confident woman. Her relationships change and develop deeper meaning for both her and her circle of friends.
The toast she makes at the turkey dinner could have been summed up with “Thsnks to Manako Kaji opening a curiosity in me about food, it has also helped me find all of you!”.
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- Devin Rose
- 07-18-24
Story with Depth
The story brought me to a lot of reflection. I am a big foodie so I lived hearing about all the dishes and how the author blended it so well into what makes life
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- Rowan Bathurst
- 11-11-24
enjoyable, subtly feminist, read
amazing performance, it was so nice to listen to. the story is a slow burn for sure, with mild highs and lows, but it is consistent in its overall trajectory. there’s really not much about ‘murder’ as the book states but more so about self discovery and reflection.
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- Bonnie Dodson
- 03-18-25
A bit hard to follow
As an American listener, I found it difficult to differentiate the names of the characters. The scene transitions were hard to follow so I spent a good deal of time playing catch up. Interesting premise for a story.
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- J. C. Edens
- 04-03-25
Quite a journey, loved and hated at times
And anyway, isn’t that what a good book does? Takes you on a journey, unexpected, with rich characters making good and bad decisions as they move through their lives, desires, relationships. It took me a bit to get into this book but by the end, I was so glad I read it. A compelling, rich tale of women’s desires and relationships to food, lovers, their bodies, cultural expectations, other women, and their jobs and roles as workers, wives, friends.
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- Rose Rodriguez
- 10-24-24
Tale of female oppression and how indulgence is a form of liberation
The pacing at the end at times felt slow but i also took an edible before listening LOL. Loved the concept and the ending.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-25-25
Very enjoyable
This book felt like a story I haven’t heard before, which was much appreciated. I loved it as a window on Japanese culture and food, and found the theme of women’s “appropriate” roles in society and the pressure to meet others’ expectations, whether real or perceived, had universal appeal. The narration was lovely to listen to as well.
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- Marie P
- 04-18-25
Slow burn, long story, not what I expected.
This book is about relationships and about food. Its not a thriller murder mystery. I bought it on a recommendation.
Another reviewer mentioned this book is a slow burn, and I find that an accurate description.
I honestly didn't enjoy the book so it took me awhile to finish. There are a couple of oddities in the story narration that probably wouldn't have come across when reading a printed book. I found it difficult to keep track of the character's names - 2 of the main women's names soundes similar to my ears. After I looked up the spelling, it was fine. Also, the topic/conversation would change seemingly mid-chapter. I had to skip back every time this happened because I couldn't follow it as well as other books.
I did enjoy how the author grew to love cooking, as I love cooking too. But, Idon't think I would listen again.
If it was a tv miniseries I would watch, because I bet they'd do a good job with Kajii and rich visuals of locations and food/cooking. Maybe also because the story would be abridged...
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