Sixty-Nine

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 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 everywhere. This is a personal but profound insight into a much wider upheaval in society.A side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties Zusammenfassung 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 everywhere. This is a personal but profound insight into a much wider upheaval in society.

Product details

• Authors: Ryu Murakami, Ryu (Author) Murakami, Murakami Ryu, Murakami Ryu
• Assisted by: Ralph McCarthy (Translation), Ralph F. McCarthy (Translation), Ralph F. (Translator) McCarthy (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.05.2013
• EAN: 9781908968463
• ISBN: 978-1-908968-46-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary