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The Boy in the Earth
Written by Fuminori Nakamura
Narrated by Brian Nishii
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Fuminori Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winner plunges us into the depths of a young man's winding, troubled psyche. An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture in his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. His live-in girlfriend, Sayuko, is in a similarly bad phase, surrendering to alcoholism to escape the memory of her miscarriage. He meets with the director of the orphanage where he once lived, and must confront awful memories of his past and an abusive family before determining what to do next.
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Rating: 3.4444445037037035 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow. What a wild and emotional ride. It starts out slowly but picks up speed as we get further into it and the ending I can only describe nihilistically hopeful, which I didn't know was possible until today.