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What You Are Looking for is in the Library

Von: Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts - translator
Gesprochen von: Hanako Footman, Kenichiro Thomson, Winson Ting, Shiro Kawai, Susan Momoko Hingley
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The heartwarming Japanese bestseller for fans of Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman and THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS

'Library. What a nice-sounding word. So comforting. I feel like I'm a student again. Library ... Am I allowed to borrow books?'

'What are you looking for?' asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door. Sensing exactly what they're looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.

Every borrower in her library is at a different crossroads, from the restless retail assistant - can she ever get out of a dead-end job? - to the juggling new mother who dreams of becoming a magazine editor, and the meticulous accountant who yearns to own an antique store. The surprise book Komachi lends to each will have transformative consequences.

Magical and uplifting, What You Are Looking for is in the Library is about the wondrousness of libraries and the power of books for change. Highlighting all the tiny comforts of being alive, it is a story that no reader will ever forget.

©2023 Michiko Aoyama (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Kritikerstimmen

I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ... A joy from start to finish, this book makes you feel anything is possible (Wendy Holden)
There's a wistful, warm-hearted appeal to Aoyama's paean to the power of books ... [it's] a quirky slice of feel-good fiction that you could recommend to anyone
An endearing novel and a tribute to the transformative power of books and libraries
Captivating!
The novel is an undeniable page-turner, its mechanism energized by a simple question, posed again and again by the uncanny librarian, Mrs. Komachi. The question brings Michiko Aoyama’s characters often to the brink of tears; and not only her characters, but this reader, too. It is the great question of the library, and of the bookstore, and maybe of life: What are you looking for?
If what you are searching for is a believable take on contemporary life in Tokyo, seasoned with a dash of whimsy, you’ll find your perfect match in this heartwarming novel
It's been a rotten year, so spark joy with this!
There’s a special kind of magic in recommending books to other people and Michiko Aoyama captures that perfectly here. Full of charm; a genuine comfort read
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I liked this book to start with and the first speaker had a wonderful voice. By the time I got to the 5th story I was quite bored by the whole thing. A couple of the speakers I also found hard to listen to. It was OK.

Clever but repetitive

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Die Sprecher interpretieren die Bibliothekarin mit sehr unterschiedlichen Tonhöhe und Sprechgeschwibdigkeiten, das finde ich irritierend. Schade, dass in diesem Punkt keine Abstimmung stattgefunden hat oder 1 Sprecherin für die Bibliothekarin in allen Kapiteln gefunden/engagiert wurde.

Die Neu-Ausrichtung der Karriere in Kapitel 3

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wonderful short stories with great, even if sometimes a but punctual and punchy writing, which is a characteristic of Japanese litfic I'm pretty sure. Narrater did a great job

wonderful

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I really enjoyed listening to all the different stories and how everyone made something great out of the books they got recommended by Ms. Komachi. I wish I knew a library with such a cool librarian too. Giving this book a listen or read is definitely worthwhile. Though some of the narrators weren't really to my taste and some of the voices for Ms. Komachi were quite...odd

Lovely book

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I think the stories are quite nice, delivering a comforting, though in some respects stereotypical, moral message. But the speakers... Why do they all have to have that strong accent, and that (in English) unnatural intonation? Is that supposed to confer some local colour to the whole? I find it extremely tiresome and annoying, and the speaker in the fourth story is absolutely unbearable - like a badly programmed robot. What's wrong with reading a text translated into English - though originally in Japanese - in a convincing English voice? I was glad when it was over, and I'm surely not going to listen to this book again. Difficult, in these circumstances, warming to the stories as such, or judging them objectively.

headache!

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