In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

In the Miso Soup

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2005
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-7405-7 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
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A psycho-thriller that takes you on a rollercoaster ride.
It's just before New Year. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: that his client may be in fact the killer currently terrorizing the city. Kenji is a likeable, if far from innocent guide, leading the reader through the inferno of violence and evil into which he apparently unwillingly descends - and from which only Jun, his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, can possibly save him. Kenji's intimate knowledge of Tokyo's sex industry, his thoughtful observations and wisecracks, his insights into the emptiness and hypocrisy of contemporary Japan, and his ultimate moral paralysis and complicity reveal a deeply distressed and rotten modern world that seems to have lost its way in search of pleasure and instant gratification.

On a recent trip to Britain, bestselling author Haruki Murakami was asked who his favourite Japanese author was. He replied that it was his namesake, Ryu Murakami. Renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami has played drums for a rock group, made movies and hosted a TV talk show. Whilst he was still a student, his first novel Almost Transparent Blue was awarded Japan's most coveted literary prize and went on to sell over a million copies. Ralph McCarthy is the translator of 69 by Ryu Murakami and two collections of stories by Osamu Dazai.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.2.2005
Übersetzer Ralph F. McCarthy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Krimi / Thriller
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-7475-7405-7 / 0747574057
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-7405-7 / 9780747574057
Zustand Neuware
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