Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies , Sixty-Nine , From the Fatherland, with Love and Popular Hits of the Showa Era , all published by Pushkin Press, as well as Audition and In the Miso Soup . Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence , Audition and Because of You . Klappentext A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society. Murakami is mercilessly funny as he tracks his characters' evolution from twits to scholars of guerrilla warfare New Yorker One of the funniest and strangest gang wars in recent literature Booklist A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society Zusammenfassung A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society.

Product details

• Authors: Ryu Murakami, Ryu (Author) Murakami, Murakami Ryu, Mukarkami Ryu
• Assisted by: Ralph McCarthy (Translation), Ralph F. McCarthy (Translation), Ralph F. (Translator) McCarthy (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9781908968449
• ISBN: 978-1-908968-44-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general