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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
StoriesBy Yukiko MotoyaNarrated by Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan, various narratorsLength5h 9m
About this audiobook
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room―and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her husband’s features are beginning to slide around his face―to match her own.
In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien―and, through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (6.9K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byNatalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan, various narrators
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 6, 2018
LanguageEnglish
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