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Heaven

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Heaven

De: Mieko Kawakami
Narrado por: Scott Keiji Takeda
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From the best-selling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced by textured exposition of the philosophical and religious debates concerning violence to which the weak are subjected.

Kawakami’s simple yet profound new work stands as a dazzling testament to her literary talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most important young authors working to expand the boundaries of contemporary Japanese literature.

©2009 Mieko Kawakami. Translation © 2021 by Mieko Kawakami (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Amistad Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Mayoría de Edad Psicológico Apasionante emocionalmente Para sentirse bien

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A young boy and his girlfriend philosophise about being bullied. Also with his same-age tormentor.

Fascinating true narrative about preteen bullying.

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A wonderful book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book relatable and generally well written. I further highly recommend this book.

A great book

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This is the kind of book that makes you look back at the kind of person you were when you grew up. It does not matter whether you were participating or a witness, the thing is you were part of it.

A gentle story about darkness and light

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Even though how clueless humans can be, the wisdom and power within didn’t give into any of weakness, and that kept helping to seek the light to Heaven.

Beautifully written!

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The extreme cruelty was too much for me, and was made worse by the reader’s flat delivery. I had to stop listening part of the way through. The writing is fine, but the overall experience was not.

Could not get through this

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Not sure why I felt compelled to finish this story. It describes bullying in us most sadistic form. The passivity and helplessness of its two victims is very disturbing. Not sure what the moral to the story was. Suffering can be endured endlessly? The narrator was excellent. If violence upsets you, skip this one.

Painful

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It is disturbing to find the complete lack of empathy and callousness of some of the characters, who are young children, in this book. Given the ability to change his circumstance to prevent future bullying and torture, I am glad the main character made the possible life changing decision to move forward with the change. I am equally disturbed by his supposed friend, Kojima, for attempting to guilt him into not making this change just so he could continued to be bullied as she had. Translation and performance for this book are very good but do not listen if you are sensitive to this topic.

Disturbing topic but glad to have listened

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Don’t get me wrong, the author is obviously very skilled at painting a scene/invoking emotion. However, it was basically gruesome kid on kid assault at every turn. Not to mention the friendship formed between the two main characters seemed toxic by the end. We never find out what heaven was. Not sure why it’s the books title. There were loose ends and what felt like no resolve or justice. I would give this author another try, but this book was just sad and disappointing.

A cruel story, not sure why it’s named Heaven.

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Wish I spoke Japanese because I know some parts were lost in translation. I speak two languages and have noticed the different instances of this before.
A profound story on bullying but way different take then I’ve heard before. I’ll have to give it more thought to really understand just exactly what the meaning of this gifted author intended. I’m familiar with bullying having led a life time of activism against it and other forms of discrimination and violent treatment but to me at this moment the sad sad part came through in the female character.
Feels like I know what might have happen to her even as the male character gets a new lease on life so to speak.
Disturbing actually. Like I said, I wish I could have either read it in Japanese or at least be more familiar with their customs. Maybe then that part I feel language missed would help the conversations in this book where “Momosai(?)” tried to explain why he & his friends who did the bullying…did the bullying. That left something lacking!

Great listen

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You know, I really loved this book. I study Japanese literature and found a great deal of meaning behind it. Mixing philosophical issues with the trauma of bullying, the symbolism, and then just the sheer narrative technique were impressive to me. That said, this was hard for me to read. I'm on the fence about how good I think this book is because whereas it has brilliant aspects to it, as in other works by Kawakami it realizes a bit took much on shock and gut wrenching despair for me.

Very Good, but Triggering

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