Murakami Ryu Author (20 results)

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Paperback. Ryu Murakami (Author), Pushkin Press. In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations about Marxism, Rimbaud, Godard, the Beatles and the Stones, set up a barricade in their school, organise a rock festival and map out a highly successful strategy in girl-winning. This is a young Japan entirely turned towards the West, pervaded by Western music, where the girls have nicknames pulled from famous British films, but still locked in a fight with the rigid post-war conservatism of the older generation. Translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy. Paperback.…

Paperback. Ryu Murakami (Author), Pushkin Press. It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire. Paperback.…

Paperback. Ryu Murakami (Author), Pushkin Press. A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. While one becomes a bisexual rock star searching for his mother, the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge on the woman who abandoned him. This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence. Paperback.…

Condition: Brand New. 600 pages. German language. 4.92x1.65x7.32 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. A side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties, Ryu Murakami s novel is an unusually funny and autobiographical book from an author known for his darkly violent and cynical side. Being young in the 1960s is the same in Japan as.

Condition: New. A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society.&Uumlber den AutorBorn in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Ak.

Condition: New. An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.&Uumlber den AutorBorn in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Aku.

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Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 343p Size: 26 x 19 x 3.5cm Number of books: 1 book.