
Length4h 53m
About this audiobook
Set in the world of Talentless Nana, The Fifty-Third Year follows Ian Hesketh, a 52-year-old man who wakes up on an island school in the body of a teenage student. Aware of the story's plot, he knows that class representative Nana Hiiragi was sent to assassinate the Talented students on the island. Ian feigns a useless fortune-telling ability to avoid suspicion, while secretly possessing complete immunity to all Talents. Armed with future knowledge and a dying smartphone, Ian secretly partners with Kyouya Onodera to undermine Nana's killings. He covertly rescues Nanao Nakajima after Nana pushes him off a cliff, nursing him back to health in an abandoned pump-house. Ian works quietly from the shadows to navigate threats involving necromancy and rival killers, protecting classmates like Michiru Inukai while attempting to alter the story's tragic course.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, Fan Fiction
Length4 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part I — The Jetty
15Part XV — The Girl with the Cloud
2Part II — The Boat
16Part XVI — The White Cat
3Part III — Introductions
17Part XVII — The Courtesies
4Part IV — The Test
18Part XVIII — The Storeroom
5Part V — The Election
19Part XIX — The Ledger
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6Part VI — Fireball
20Part XX — Last Chances
7Part VII — The Cliff
21Part XXI — The Auditors
8Part VIII — The House on the Hill
22Part XXII — The Second Tea
9Part IX — The Head in the Bag
23Part XXIII — The Starving Year
10Part X — The Reading
24Part XXIV — The General Solution
11Part XI — The List
25Part XXV — Forty Minutes
12Part XII — The Festival
26Part XXVI — The Wards
13Part XIII — Winter
27Part XXVII — The Assembly
14Part XIV — Moe
28Part XXVIII — The Night Train, and After