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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! a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs! 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! Popular Hits of the Showa Era! Audition! In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland! with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence! Audition and Because of You. Klappentext An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire Zusammenfassung An ambitious! epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.
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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.
