SAMPLE-ADB: https://media.audiobookstore.com/h/2/h236/h236-sample.mp3 ----------------------------------------------------------- COVER-ADB: https://i.ibb.co/GvV2D4jb/cover-adb.jpg _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________ The Tatami Time Machine Blues A Novel By Tomihiko Morimi Narrated by Kurt Kanazawa 4.3 13 ratings In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner’s remote control—the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox of an apartment building. Vengeful and despairing, our protagonist discusses countermeasures with his secret crush, the reliably blunt Akashi, when Tamura, a strange young man with a bad haircut, appears. Tamura claims to be a time traveler from 25 years in the future, and shows off the time machine he uses to travel. Our protagonist has a brilliant idea: the sweetest revenge would be to go back one day in time and retrieve the functioning remote control. His simple fix is complicated by Ozu and several others who are also eager to take a ride back in time. But in attempting to alter the past, our protagonist foresees the world's extinction. Even more troublingly, Akashi mentions she’s bringing someone to the upcoming bonfire . . . and it's not him. Only one thing remains certain: it's going to be a very long month. Obliteration? Salvation? Coca-Cola? Castella cake? What does the time machine hold for our (not quite) heroes? It all depends on which one gets there first. Translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri Release date 11-07-23 Language English Format Unabridged Audiobook Length 4 hrs and 43 mins Publisher HarperAudio Categories Literature & Fiction whispersync Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Humorous Literary Fiction Magical Realism Psychological Science Fiction Time Travel Magic ----------------------------------------------------------- Read By: Kurt Kanazawa Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: 4.75 hours at 1.0x Speed 3.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063158528 Quick Stats About this Audiobook Total Audiobook Chapters: 9 Longest Chapter Length: 64:42 minutes Shortest Chapter Length: 36 seconds Average Chapter Length: 31:28 minutes Audiobooks by this Author: 2 ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- July 29, 2020 _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________ Cover Title Page Contents One: August 12 Two: August 11 Three: August 12 Again Afterword A Note from the Translator About the Author Copyright About the Publisher ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. THE TATAMI TIME MACHINE BLUES. Copyright © 2020 by Tomihiko Morimi and Makoto Ueda; English translation copyright © 2023 by Emily Balistrieri. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Originally published as Yojō-Han Time Machine Blues in Japan in 2020 by KADOKAWA Corporation; English-language rights arranged with KADOKAWA Corporation, Tokyo, through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc. First HarperVia hardcover published 2023 Cover art by Yusuke Nakamura Cover design by Stephen Brayda Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2023 ISBN: 978-0-06-315851-1 Print ISBN: 978-0-06-315849-8 _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________ ☕ _________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________