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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- ナレーター: Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 5 時間 55 分
- カテゴリー: ミステリー・スリラー・サスペンス, スリラー・サスペンス
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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- ナレーター: Kirby Heyborne
- 再生時間: 14 時間 23 分
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Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- ナレーター: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- 再生時間: 9 時間 8 分
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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Convenience Store Woman
- 著者: Sayaka Murata
- ナレーター: Nancy Wu
- 再生時間: 3 時間 21 分
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Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store.
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The Emissary
- 著者: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- ナレーター: Julian Cihi
- 再生時間: 4 時間 8 分
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- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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- ナレーター: Joanna David
- 再生時間: 13 時間 32 分
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The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai who, for most of the 20th century, were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that ‘one loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’, but there was far more to the Soong sisters than these caricatures. As China battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, each sister played an important, sometimes critical role and left an indelible mark on history.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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- ナレーター: Kirby Heyborne
- 再生時間: 14 時間 23 分
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Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- ナレーター: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- 再生時間: 9 時間 8 分
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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Convenience Store Woman
- 著者: Sayaka Murata
- ナレーター: Nancy Wu
- 再生時間: 3 時間 21 分
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Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store.
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The Emissary
- 著者: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- ナレーター: Julian Cihi
- 再生時間: 4 時間 8 分
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Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- 著者: Jung Chang
- ナレーター: Joanna David
- 再生時間: 13 時間 32 分
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The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai who, for most of the 20th century, were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that ‘one loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’, but there was far more to the Soong sisters than these caricatures. As China battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, each sister played an important, sometimes critical role and left an indelible mark on history.
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Girl, Woman, Other
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- ナレーター: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- 再生時間: 11 時間 7 分
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From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
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Breasts and Eggs
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- ナレーター: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
- 再生時間: 15 時間 22 分
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- 著者: Robert Iger
- ナレーター: Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
- 再生時間: 8 時間 45 分
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Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger - think global - and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.
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- ナレーター: Nicholas Guy Smith
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/05/07
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- 著者: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
- ナレーター: David Shih
- 再生時間: 21 時間 50 分
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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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- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West but worldwide.
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- Stories from a South African Childhood
- 著者: Trevor Noah
- ナレーター: Trevor Noah
- 再生時間: 8 時間 44 分
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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A moving account of one’s life in South Africa
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/06/14
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- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- 著者: Paulo Coelho
- ナレーター: Jeremy Irons
- 再生時間: 4 時間
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Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest.
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- 著者: 柳 美里
- 再生時間: 5 時間 20 分
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一九三三年、私は「天皇」と同じ日に生まれた――東京オリンピックの前年、出稼ぎのため上野駅に降り立った男の壮絶な生涯を通じ描かれる、日本の光と闇……居場所を失くしたすべての人へ贈る物語。
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Book 1
- 著者: J.K. Rowling
- ナレーター: Stephen Fry
- 再生時間: 9 時間 33 分
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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/01/03
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Magpie Murders
- Magpie Murders, Book 1
- 著者: Anthony Horowitz
- ナレーター: Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
- 再生時間: 15 時間 48 分
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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years, and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway.... But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems.
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- 著者: Osamu Dazai
- ナレーター: June Angela
- 再生時間: 4 時間 28 分
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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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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. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every 80 minutes), the professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her young son. The professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities - like the housekeeper's shoe size - and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.
Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
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- KH
- 2019/01/20
Keepな作品
大きなイベントが起こらないにもかかわらず、すぐに引き込まれました。
家政婦と息子の博士に対する優しさと尊敬の気持ちがしみじみ伝わってきます。聞いていると優しい気持ちになれるし、ナレーターの声にも癒されます。なんども聞き返したい作品。
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- Sara
- 2016/06/16
The Wonder Of Kindness & Connection
It is difficult to capture and convey the true essence of this magical novel in a review. The story revolves around and explores concepts of memory, mathematics and human connection. It is about acceptance and kindness. More than this, this gentle story reminds the reader that life is an opportunity for celebration. It's about finding meaning in small things, seeing with new eyes and learning concepts you thought you might never understand.
The book was expertly narrated by Cassandra Campbell who was deftly able to capture the subtle nuances of the writing. Her timing and use of pauses, inflection and quietness were perfect.
To me, this was a beautifully written, insightful and compelling novel. At times sad, but filled with possibility and hope. I loved it.
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- AM
- 2013/08/28
For the joy of a story
Another reviewer said it well, this story won't be made into a blockbuster movie HOWEVER if you simply want to be captivated by a story, this may be a tale you will love. There are hints of heartbreak but the story isn't about romantic love, it's about the formation of unlikely friendships and how "family" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. If you ever wanted to truly understand what it means to live in the present, this book will give you a vibrant example.
In short, this story was a respite from busy-ness (misspelling intentional) and a joy.
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- Dr.
- 2013/06/02
This is a Gem! Well worth a Listen.
An unexpected delight! A thoughtful story about a young housekeeper who goes to work for a medically retired mathematics professor whose short-term memory only lasts 80 minutes. Everyday she comes to work is the first time her employer has met her. Intelligent and sensitive, but not highly educated, the housekeeper comes to learn about his quirks and shortcomings, and develops a great appreciation for his intelligence and love of prime numbers. Her esteem for him only increases when he lovingly showers attention on her 10 year old son.
Along the way, the listener learns about number theory, baseball in Japan, the struggles of a single mother, and how one man's remarkable intelligence and sensitivity have survived a terrible accident. Told from the first person perspective of the housekeeper, this book is warm, honest, and interesting, with no sentimentality. The narration is perfect and Campbell does a great job of giving voice to the young housekeeper.
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- Natalie
- 2016/01/29
Sweet enduring inserting story
This is a gem. A feel good story and the book makes you look at math philosophically.
This would be one of my top books and it is the type of book that reminds me of Bel Canto in the way you fall in love with the interesting characters
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- Douglas
- 2016/03/05
The Most Beautiful Novel...
I have read in a long time! Sheer poetry from start to finish! Please more from this author!
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- k
- 2016/08/18
Charming exploration of math, memory and love
This is a lovely little story. It made number theory seem appealing with discussions of amicable, perfect and prime numbers. It surprised me by revealing a baseball culture in Japan that is so similar to US culture. It made me muse on how much my memories impact my daily living and what it would be like to remember only the last 80 minutes. I was most impressed by the exploration of love between an aged professor, a young mother and her son.
It was definitely worth the credit.
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- Judy
- 2016/05/13
I Remember You
What a sweet, engaging story. I have read of this memory affliction, but have never seen it handled so well, both by the central figure and by his/her immediate circle of family and caregivers. The narrator is perfect for this book.
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- Lisa
- 2016/01/05
Beautifully written, perfectly performed.
If you could sum up The Housekeeper and the Professor in three words, what would they be?
Intelligent, cozy, tranquility
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Housekeeper and the Professor?
So many. The descriptions of The Housekeeper preparing food is a masterpiece in itself.
What about Cassandra Campbell’s performance did you like?
Her soothing voice is medicine for the soul.
Any additional comments?
I loved every second of this book. Thank you so much!
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- SLC
- 2016/11/11
Lovely, gentle, beautiful
A Japanese story translated into English but well worth experiencing. It is a gentle yet deeply engaging story about a love of math, human connections, family. An odd mix but brought together in harmony. Highly recommend even for those not interested in math.
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- Jo Ann Turner
- 2016/11/01
Really Good
What made the experience of listening to The Housekeeper and the Professor the most enjoyable?
I needed a book like this.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Housekeeper and the Professor?
Them searching the baseball cards .
Have you listened to any of Cassandra Campbell’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No but will look for them .