Today’s Audible Daily Deal features Fog Island Mountains. This bestselling take on the Japanese folk tale tradition is rated 4.5/5 stars and is available for $2.95 TODAY ONLY. Note that the regular price is shown next to the audiobook’s title on its product page, but the discount price is shown in the ‘buy’ area at the right.
From Amazon:
Huddled beneath the volcanoes of the Kirishima mountain range in southern Japan – also called the Fog Island Mountains – the inhabitants of small town Komachi are waiting for the biggest of the summer’s typhoons.
South African expatriate Alec Chester has lived in Komachi for nearly 40 years. Alec considers himself an ordinary man, with common troubles and mundane achievements – until his doctor gives him a terminal cancer diagnosis and his wife, Kanae, disappears into the gathering storm. Kanae flees from the terrifying reality of Alec’s diagnosis, even going so far as to tell a childhood friend that she is already a widow.
Her willful avoidance of the truth leads her to commit a grave infidelity, and only when Alec is suspected of checking himself out of the hospital to commit a quiet suicide, does Kanae come home to face what it will mean to lose her husband.
Narrated by one of the town’s oldest and most peculiar inhabitants, this haunting and beautiful audio reinterpretation of the Japanese kitsune folktale tradition (also available in print, eBook, and unabridged audio CD) is about the dangers of actions taken in grief, and an exploration of storytelling as a form of healing.
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