Kamusari Tales Told at Night, Shion Miura
Kamusari Tales Told at Night, Shion Miura
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Kamusari Tales Told at Night

Author: Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter

Series: Forest #2

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2022

Synopsis

From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village.It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home—or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.Yuki’s crush on the only other young single person in the village isn’t a secret. Yet how impressed can she be with someone at least five years younger who makes less money and doesn’t even own a car? More daunting, she’s in love with another man. Finally finding his place among the villagers, a feeling deepened by his crush, Yuki seems headed for a dream life of adventure and camaraderie—and Nao could be the missing piece of that dream.

About Shion Miura

Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight). In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town). Her other novels include Kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru (The Wind Blows Hard), Kogure-so monogatari (The Kogure Apartments), and Ano ie ni kurasu yonin no onna (The Four Women Living in That House). Her other works in English, all translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, include The Easy Life in Kamusari (Kamusari naanaa nichijo), volume one in her Forest series, and The Great Passage (Fune o amu), which was made into an award-winning motion picture and received both the Booksellers’ Award in Japan in 2012 and an Earphones Award. Miura has also published more than fifteen collections of essays and is a manga aficionado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

Last week I finished "The Easy Life in Kamusari" and coincidentally (because I sure didn't realize it while I was reading) the second book came out in English the day before I finished it. As I have a trial of Kindle Unlimited I decided to go ahead and give the second one a shot. After all, the firs......more

Goodreads review by Liong

After reading "The Easy Life in Kamusari" I read this #2 book "Kamusari Tales Told at Night". I enjoyed reading it because living and working in the forest is something new to me. I learned about Japanese forest jobs and culture in this book. The story is simple but entertaining especially for those......more

Goodreads review by Dona

I knew there was a reason I never move on to second books in series; I should have just stuck to my rule. I did not find this second book in the Kamusari series nearly as charming or entertaining as the first, mainly for a couple of reasons. But first, I'll tell you what still worked about this book......more

Goodreads review by Ecem

Many thanks to NetGalley and AmazonCrossing for the ARC of the book in exchange for an honest review. Kamusari Tales Told at Night is a really peaceful, heartwarming, and cute sequel to The Easy Life in Kamusari. I was once again very happy to dive into Yuki's narration describing the laid-back atti......more

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