The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura / Narrated by Lucie KondoRequirements: .MP3 player, 103 mbOverview: Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting powerful, high-profile men – who she then drugs and takes incriminating photos of to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organisation she’s […]
Last Winter, We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura / Narrated by Feodor Chin, Richard Powers, P. J. OchlanRequirements: .MP3 player, 133 mbOverview: Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of […]
The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura / Narrated by Brian NishiiRequirements: .MP3 player, 84 mbOverview: On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him blurs. But […]
Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura / Narrated by Kirby HeyborneRequirements: .MP3 player, 252 mbOverview: The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012’s critically acclaimed The Thief—another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity—and the powerful human instinct […]
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura / Narrated by Charlie ThurstonRequirements: .MP3 player, 98 mbOverview: The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly that sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him; […]