Pushkin Press, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN: 190896846X (ISBN13: 9781908968463) Ralph McCarthy (Translator) It's summer of 1969, and Kensuke Yazaki is seventeen and interested in everything: the Rolling Stones, Rimbaud, the Velvet Underground, French New Wave, Jimi Hendrix, political protest and Janis Joplin, all of which is happening in a long way away. But Kensuke and his friends...
Kodansha, 2003. — 126 p. — ISBN13: 9784770029041 Nancy Andrew (Translator) Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often...
Bloomsbury, 2010. — 200 p. — ISBN: 1408800721 (ISBN13: 9781408800720) Ralph McCarthy (Translator) Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan: to hold fake film auditions from which, he can choose a new bride. Of...
Pushkin Press, 2013. — 507 p. — ISBN13: 9781908968470 A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find...
Pushkin Press, 2013. — 672 p. — ISBN13: 9781782270324. Ralph McCarthy (Translator), Charles De Wolf (Translator), Ginny Tapley-Takemori (Translator) From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9781408806371. Ralph McCarthy (Translator) It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9780143038634 Ralph McCarthy (Translator) A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and...
W. W. Norton Company, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0393338428 (ISBN13: 9780393338423) Ralph McCarthy (Translator) In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to...
Kurodahan Press, 2016. — 280 p. — ISBN: 4902075792 (ISBN13: 9784902075793). Ralph McCarthy (Translator). A cream-of-the-crop selection of Murakami's brilliance and piercing wit. This collection shows sides of Ryu Murakami that even avid fans may not be expecting. The intriguing, somewhat disturbing stories that Topaz was based on are included here, as are three entertaining and...
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