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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR · Marie Claire
“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” (Paula Hawkins, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Girl on the Train)
“[It] will keep you firmly in its grip.” (Oyinkan Braithwaite, best-selling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer)
“The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith.” (Kelly Link, best-selling author of Get in Trouble)
A best-selling, prizewinning novel by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers, for fans of Convenience Store Woman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and the movies Parasite and Rear Window
I think what I'm trying to say is that I've been wanting to become friends with the Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time....
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.
From a distance, the Woman in the Purple Skirt looks like a schoolgirl, but there are age spots on her face, and her hair is dry and stiff. She is single, she lives in a small apartment, and she is short on money—just like the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who lures her to a job as a housekeeper at a hotel, where she too is a housekeeper. Soon, the Woman in the Purple Skirt is having an affair with the boss and all eyes are on her. But no one knows or cares about the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan. That's the difference between her and the Woman in the Purple Skirt.
Studiously deadpan and chillingly voyeuristic, and with the off-kilter appeal of the novels of Ottessa Moshfegh, The Woman in the Purple Skirt explores envy, loneliness, power dynamics, and the vulnerability of unmarried women in a taut, suspenseful narrative about the sometimes desperate desire to be seen.
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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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Am amazing and different story
- De D.R. en 04-10-19
De: Sayaka Murata, y otros
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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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Convenience Store woman continues to engage the reader
- De Thomas en 06-25-24
De: Sayaka Murata
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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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.
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Cozy Love Story and Leisure Time in Japan
- De mz en 01-02-19
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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Dead-End Memories
- Stories
- De: Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda - translator
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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First published in Japan in 2003, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Yoshimoto's gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simple as having someone to share a meal with, and that happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to pause and reflect. Discover this collection of what Yoshimoto herself calls the "most precious work of my writing career."
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Chapter Six Mostly Missing?
- De Anonymous User en 01-01-23
De: Banana Yoshimoto, y otros
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Girls Against God
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows, and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-traveling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death-metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.
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Not great but has redeeming qualities
- De Anonymous User en 03-31-24
De: Jenny Hval, 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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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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I LOVED it
- De Rose en 09-29-21
De: Kikuko Tsumura, y otros
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The Goodbye Cat
- De: Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrado por: George Blagden
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death—as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down.
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Great story for cat lovers
- De Sundy Rothery en 01-11-24
De: Hiro Arikawa, 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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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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Magical
- De David Zwakenberg en 07-17-24
De: Durian Sukegawa, y otros
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The Ten Loves of Nishino
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 5 h
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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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Enjoyable
- De Rose en 08-08-21
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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All the Lovers in the Night
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Mirai
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
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Enjoyable listen
- De Rose en 05-16-22
De: Mieko Kawakami
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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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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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Great listen
- De Anthony en 07-30-21
De: Mieko Kawakami
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
- A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel, Book 1
- De: Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by. The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories—dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.
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Combines two of my favorite things
- De Anonymous en 03-25-24
De: Hisashi Kashiwai, y otros
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Rouge
- A Novel
- De: Mona Awad
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience.
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What a fun romp!
- De Barbara S en 10-10-23
De: Mona Awad
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
- De: Baek Sehee
- Narrado por: Jully Lee
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her—what to call it?—depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food: the spicy rice cake, tteokbokki?
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Woe is me
- De Adrianna Flores en 07-10-23
De: Baek Sehee
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I Am a Cat
- De: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 21 h y 50 m
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Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.
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Great performance!
- De mz en 04-03-20
De: Soseki Natsume, 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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Woman in the Purple Skirt
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- Anna Christine
- 07-27-22
Wild
This story is wild. I can't get over the stalker vibes. So weird, but entertaining.
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- ruka
- 05-11-22
typical japanese fiction story
The story is pretty typical of Japanese short fiction - slice of life with a twist plus some deranged unreliable narrator. Reminds me of Yoko Ogawa's works actually.
The performance was great. Jennifer Ikeda has really captured the voices of different characters and reads with tone and inflection. The acting wasn't over the top and there wasn't a monotone second in the entire 3+ hours.
However, I do wish they had coached her on the Japanese pronunciations a bit. Obviously she can enunciate the syllables one by one but (r's, d's, etc were pronounced the Japanese way) but isn't really comfortable with speaking Japanese. It made the Japanese names in the book sound over-pronounced at times. Yet when she read the Japanese greetings in a certain section of the story, her intonation was completely off. I actually cringed a bit at that part, it was so bad. But it's not something a non-Japanese speaker would catch. The acting was really good though, and I'd love to hear more of her work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-25-22
interesting but not my style
defo interesting and a nice quick read but not amazing. a mystery that might be better for some
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- Jay Quintana
- 03-27-22
Didn't Get It
The first person narrator becomes captivated by the titular character. There isn't a logical reason for this -- other than appearing lonely, the woman seems ordinary. And yet the narrator observes her to the point where it's almost stalking. They wind up working the same job, but somehow never get a chance to meet. Other than the observing/stalking, everything that happens is quotidian. You expect a payoff, and there is one. But it is a letdown. As mentioned in the title, I didn't get it. Perhaps the lady in the purple skirt only exists in the mind of the narrator, and this is a meditation on identity or duality or some other psychological term that escapes me at the moment. I'm not interested in giving this another listen to find out. Have to say, the narrator is excellent; I'm interested in her other projects.
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- Tamara
- 06-30-21
I’m very sad I wasted my time
The best thing about this book was the narrator. She did a great job. The story was very uninteresting. I was very disappointed.
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- Roberto Alexander Bernal
- 05-28-23
It was ok
Honestly it was a narrator was great and all but the story just needed more. It had a decent plot but no conclusion
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