Ryu Murakami, Author, Stephen Snyder, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $23 (0p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1590-7
The third of this prolific Japanese author's 30 novels to appear in English, this is a cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth. Two mothers abandon their infant boys in the Yokohama train station's coin lockers. The reader is not...
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Ryu Murakami, Author, Ralph McCarthy, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy. Penguin $13 (185p) ISBN 978-0-14-303863-4
In this short, tense and brutally eloquent thriller from Japanese author Murakami (In the Miso Soup
), Kawashima Masayuki, a young urban professional, faces the terrible fear he will stab his baby daughter, Rie, just as he once stabbed the stripper...
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Ryu Murakami, Author, Ralph McCarthy, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy. Norton $13.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-393-33841-6
Seven years after his wife's death, Aoyama, the protagonist of popular Japanese author Murakami's dud chiller, is ready to get on with his life. Aoyama has a strong relationship with his son, Shinge, but the successful businessman needs...
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Ryu Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy, Norton, $13.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-33842-3
Violence aficionado Murakami (Audition) drops a motley cast into a late 20th-century Japan that's all decadence and social ineptitude. Though six young men have nothing in common except for having "given up on committing positively to anything in...
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