Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2013
182 kr
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An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope with the surprise onslaught of Operation From the Fatherland, with Love . But the terrorist Ishihara and his band of renegade youths - once dedicated to upsetting the Japanese government - turn their deadly attention to the North Korean threat. They will not allow Fukuoka to fall without a fight. Epic in scale, From the Fatherland, with Love is laced throughout with Murakami's characteristically savage violence. It's both a satisfying thriller and a completely mad, over-the-top novel like few others.
Translated by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Tapley Takemori, and published by Pushkin Press
'A troubled meditation on the soul of modern Japan... Alarmingly pertinent in light of current British politics... A morbidly funny comedy... Above all, it is a phenomenal feat of storytelling 700 pages, dozens of characters and scores of ideas woven into one gripping whole.' Andrzej Lukowski, Metro
'This is a novel by the other Murakami. Not Haruki... If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is its Rolling Stones... [From the Fatherland, with Love] has a Tolstoyan cast of characters, from crack North Korean commandos and hapless Japanese bureaucrats to a gang of hoodlums who eventually decide to save Japan. It unfolds with the pace of a thriller...'
David Pilling, Financial TImes
'Massively ambitious and uncompromising... prescient in unexpected ways'
Joanne Hayden, Sunday Business Post
''[Mixes] the thrills of a spy novel with some national soul-searching'
Lionel Barber, Financial Times, Summer Books
'Definitely edgier and darker than Haruki [Ryu Murakami] has a worldwide following and is regarded by many as one of the most thrilling writers of contemporary Japanese fiction... [He] offers a thrilling insight - with a geopolitical panoramic view - into national character, human relationships, chaos and disorder' - Tatevik Sargsyan, Hunger Magazine
'Like nothing else out there... a Japanese Tarantino... Highly addictive' Morpheus Tales
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 and In the Miso Soup. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2010
138 kr
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Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film auditions so that Aoyama can choose a new bride, he decides to go along with the idea. Of the thousands who apply, Aoyama only has eyes for Yamasaki Asami, a young, beautiful, delicate and talented ballerina with a turbulent past. But there is more to her than Aoyama, blinded by his infatuation, can see, and by the time he discovers the terrifying truth it may be too late Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtle and disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan's master of the psycho-thriller. - Häftad, Engelska, 2007
240 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2010
239 kr
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In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don’t intend to produce. As the résumés pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama’s attention—Yamasaki Asami—a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. Blinded by his instant and total infatuation, Aoyama is too late in discovering that she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be. The novel’s fast-paced, thriller conclusion doesn’t spare the reader as Yamasaki takes off her angelic mask and reveals what lies beneath. - Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes a lethal ambush of one of the women, chaos ensues. The women band together to find the killer and exact revenge. In turn, the boys buckle down, study physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in a single blast. Who knew that a deadly "gang war" could be such fun? Murakami builds the conflict into a hilarious, spot-on satire of modern culture and the tensions between the sexes and generations. - Häftad, Japanska, 2006
133 kr
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It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him. - Häftad, Engelska, 2008
149 kr
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Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. - E-bokEngelska, 2009
136 kr
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A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller''A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs'' Kirkus''Deft and fascinating . . . A grisly tour of the darkness and confusion of the human mind'' New York TimesIt''s just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo''s red light district.As Frank''s behaviour becomes increasingly unsettling, Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous intentions.Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends into the troubling waters of Frank''s mind, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him. - E-bokEngelska, 2010
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Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan: to hold fake film auditions from which, he can choose a new bride. Of the thousands who apply, it is a beautiful ballerina, Yamasaki Asami, who captivates Aoyama. Infatuated by her fragile nature and nervous smile, he ignores his increasing sense of unease, putting aside his doubts about his new love, until it may be too late...
In Audition, Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtly disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan''s master of the psycho-thriller.
- E-bokEngelska, 2013
150 kr
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Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl''s crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder... - E-bokEngelska, 2007
112 kr
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*One of Literary Hub''s "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don''t Think You Like Horror)"*A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso SoupA renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, In the Miso Soup, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In Piercing, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
140 kr
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'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times
Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start.
Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind.
When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence.
'Encapsulates the fin de siècle cultural detonation of Japanese youth' Kirkus
- Häftad, Engelska, 2013
139 kr
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A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke act combining manga and street culture
It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire.
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
Ryu Murakami's Popular Hits From the Showa Era is translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy and published by Pushkin Press
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.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2013
139 kr
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Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties
In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations about Marxism, Rimbaud, Godard, the Beatles and the Stones, set up a barricade in their school, organise a rock festival and map out a highly successful strategy in girl-winning. This is a young Japan entirely turned towards the West, pervaded by Western music, where the girls have nicknames pulled from famous British films, but still locked in a fight with the rigid post-war conservatism of the older generation.
Translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy and published by Pushkin Press
'A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan.'
Library Journal
'A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find.'
Kirkus Reviews
'The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass.'
Los Angeles Times
A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes with him all the way.
Atlantic Monthly
'A cross between The Catcher and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement.'
Review of Contemporary Fiction
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.
- Häftad, Tyska, 2018
173 kr
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- Inbunden, Tyska, 2018
331 kr
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- Inbunden, Tyska
331 kr
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- E-bokTyska, 2015
164 kr
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Seit dem Tod seiner Frau vor 7 Jahren hatte Dokumentarfilmer Aoyama keine einzige Verabredung. Nachdem sogar sein 15-jähriger Sohn Shige zu einer neuen Heirat drängt, beschließt Aoyama, genau das zu tun. Um in möglichst kurzer Zeit, die Richtige zu finden, kommt für den erfolgreichen Geschäftsmann nur eine systematische Suche in Frage. Sein bester Freund Yoshikawa entwickelt den perfekten Plan: Unter dem Deckmantel eines Film-Castings, soll Aoyama seine zukünftige Braut finden. Tausende Frauen bewerben sich, doch es ist von Anfang an die hübsche Ballett-Tänzerin Yamasaki Asami, die Aoyamas Herz erobert. Betört und geblendet von ihrer Zerbrechlichkeit und dem schüchternen Lächeln, ignoriert er sein immer größer werdendes Gefühl, das mit Asami irgendetwas nicht stimmt.Was als zarte Liebesgeschichte beginnt, mündet bald in einen beklemmenden Alptraum...Mit Das Casting schuf Ryu Murakami einen fesselnden Psycho-Thriller, der tief unter die Haut geht und die Vorlage für den Kultfilm Audition (1999) von Takashi Miike.2013 landete "Das Casting" auf der HotList unter den 10 besten Büchern Deuschlands.aus unabhängigen Verlagen. - E-bokTyska, 2015
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Hashi und Kiku wurden nach ihrer Geburt in Münzschließfächern zurückgelassen. Die beiden Jungs verbringen ihre Jugend zunächst im Waisenhaus und später bei Pflegeeltern auf einer verlassenen Insel, bevor sie schließlich in die Stadt ziehen, um die Frauen, die sie wegegeben hatten, zu finden und zu vernichten. Gemeinsam oder getrennt ist ihre Reise vom Münzschließfach zu einem atemberaubenden, wilden Höhepunkt eine Achterbahnfahrt durch die unheimliche Landschaft eines Japan im späten zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Nachdem sie ihre Zieheltern verlassen hatten zieht es beide ins Giftghetto, eine von Freaks und Strichern belebte Gegend. Während sich Hashi zu einem bisexuellen Rocksänger entwickelt, Star in dieser exotischen Halbwelt, sucht Kiku, seine Rache in Gesellschaft seiner Freundin, einem Modell, die ihre Wohnung in einen tropischen Sumpf für ihr Krokodil umgewandelt hat. Doch die Rachepläne die Kiku verolgt gehen weiter als blos seine Mutter zu finden … "Coin Locker Babys" nennt man in öffentliche Schließfächer abgelegte Neugeborene. Diese Praxis findet man häufig in Japan oder China vor. Es ist nahezu ausgeschlossen, dass ein Baby dies überlebt.Coin Locker Babys ist eine surreale Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem Japan der nahen Zukunft, die Ryu Murakami als einen der einfallsreichsten Autoren der Welt etablierte. - E-bokTyska, 2018
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Japan befindet sich in einer dystopischen Gegenwart. Amerika lässt seinen einstigen Verbündeten im Stich und Hunderttausende von Obdachlosen ziehen durch das von einer gigantischen Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelte Land. Nordkorea, das seine Beziehungen zu den USA inzwischen verbessert hat, beschließt, die Schwäche des verhassten Nachbarn auszunutzen, und plant eine heimtückische Invasion. Getarnt als aus Nordkorea geflüchtete Dissidenten besetzt eine Einheit aus neun Elite-Soldaten das Baseball-Stadion der japanischen Hafenstadt Fukuoka und nimmt die 30.000 Zuschauer als Geiseln. Während die ohnmächtige japanische Regierung hysterisch sinnlose Maßnahmen ergreift, nimmt in Fukuoka ein absurder Albtraum seinen Lauf. Im Zuge der Geheimoperation "In Liebe, Dein Vaterland" sollen weitere 120.000 Soldaten folgen und den Süden Japans in eine Provinz Nordkoreas verwandeln. Ryu Murakami zeichnet in seiner zweiteiligen Dystopie über einen möglichen Einmarsch nordkoreanischer Truppen im friedliebenden Japan eine bitterböse Satire über eine Nation, in der die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich zwar immer größer zu werden scheint, aber Tradition vor Effizienz gestellt wird; und die nordkoreanische Diktatur, die ohne Zweifel Jahrzehnte hinter der westlichen Welt zurückliegt. Unparteiisch, furios, zynisch und raffiniert durchdacht. Ein epischer Politthriller von beklemmender Aktualität, wie nur Altmeister Ryu Murakami ihn schreiben kann. Band II: Der Untergang erscheint im Frühjahr 2019 - E-bokTyska, 2019
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Japan befindet sich in einer dystopischen Gegenwart. Amerika lässt seinen einstigen Verbündeten im Stich und Hunderttausende von Obdachlosen ziehen durch das von einer gigantischen Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelte Land. Nordkorea, das seine Beziehungen zu den USA inzwischen verbessert hat, beschließt, die Schwäche des verhassten Nachbarn auszunutzen, und plant eine heimtückische Invasion. Getarnt als aus Nordkorea geflüchtete Dissidenten besetzt eine Einheit aus neun Elite-Soldaten das Baseball-Stadion der japanischen Hafenstadt Fukuoka und nimmt die 30.000 Zuschauer als Geiseln. Während die ohnmächtige japanische Regierung hysterisch sinnlose Maßnahmen ergreift, nimmt in Fukuoka ein absurder Albtraum seinen Lauf. Im Zuge der Geheimoperation "In Liebe, Dein Vaterland" sollen weitere 120.000 Soldaten folgen und den Süden Japans in eine Provinz Nordkoreas verwandeln. Ryu Murakami zeichnet in seiner zweiteiligen Dystopie über einen möglichen Einmarsch nordkoreanischer Truppen im friedliebenden Japan eine bitterböse Satire über eine Nation, in der die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich zwar immer größer zu werden scheint, aber Tradition vor Effizienz gestellt wird; und die nordkoreanische Diktatur, die ohne Zweifel Jahrzehnte hinter der westlichen Welt zurückliegt. Unparteiisch, furios, zynisch und raffiniert durchdacht. Ein epischer Politthriller von beklemmender Aktualität, wie nur Altmeister Ryu Murakami ihn schreiben kann. - Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
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- E-bokTyska, 2024
176 kr
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Sechs junge Männer ohne Ambitionen, sechs alleinstehende Frauen, die alle Midori heißen, und eine gemeinsame Leidenschaft: Karaoke! Doch was, wenn eine Fehde zwischen den beiden Gruppen eskaliert und in einen regelrechten Krieg ausufertIshihara und seine Freunde sind zu nichts zu gebrauchen. Ihr Lebensinhalt sind öde Partys und das Spannen bei der Nachbarin. Als einer von ihnen eine Frau auf offener Straße brutal ermordet, sehen sich deren Freundinnen gezwungen, ihren Tod zu rächen. Sie schließen sich zusammen, um den Täter ausfindig zu machen und zu töten. Nach dem Prinzip »Auge um Auge« beginnen die beiden Lager, sich gegenseitig zu dezimieren, wobei sie auf immer skurrilere und grausamere Methoden zurückgreifen. Diese Aufgabe jedoch ruft in allen Beteiligten auch einen ganz neuen Tatendrang und ungeahnte Fähigkeiten hervor. Untermalt mit den Melodien großer Hits aus der Showa-Ära, entsteht ein verheerender Bandenkrieg der etwas anderen Art.In seinem satirischen Roman Superhits der Showa-Ära, der sowohl verfilmt als auch fürs Theater adaptiert wurde, karikiert Ryu Murakami schonungslos die Kultur der Moderne sowie den Geschlechter- und Generationenkonflikt in der japanischen Gesellschaft. Dabei zeigt er auf unheimlich mitreißende und komische Weise, wie aus einer vermeintlich unbedeutenden Feindschaft eine Gewaltorgie apokalyptischen Ausmaßes werden kann. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope with the surprise onslaught of Operation From the Fatherland, with Love . But the terrorist Ishihara and his band of renegade youths - once dedicated to upsetting the Japanese government - turn their deadly attention to the North Korean threat. They will not allow Fukuoka to fall without a fight. Epic in scale, From the Fatherland, with Love is laced throughout with Murakami's characteristically savage violence. It's both a satisfying thriller and a completely mad, over-the-top novel like few others.Translated by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Tapley Takemori, and published by Pushkin Press'A troubled meditation on the soul of modern Japan... Alarmingly pertinent in light of current British politics... A morbidly funny comedy... Above all, it is a phenomenal feat of storytelling 700 pages, dozens of characters and scores of ideas woven into one gripping whole.' Andrzej Lukowski, Metro'This is a novel by the other Murakami. Not Haruki... If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is its Rolling Stones... [From the Fatherland, with Love] has a Tolstoyan cast of characters, from crack North Korean commandos and hapless Japanese bureaucrats to a gang of hoodlums who eventually decide to save Japan. It unfolds with the pace of a thriller...'David Pilling, Financial TImes'Massively ambitious and uncompromising... prescient in unexpected ways'Joanne Hayden, Sunday Business Post''[Mixes] the thrills of a spy novel with some national soul-searching'Lionel Barber, Financial Times, Summer Books'Definitely edgier and darker than Haruki [Ryu Murakami] has a worldwide following and is regarded by many as one of the most thrilling writers of contemporary Japanese fiction... [He] offers a thrilling insight - with a geopolitical panoramic view - into national character, human relationships, chaos and disorder' - Tatevik Sargsyan, Hunger MagazineBorn 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 and In the Miso Soup. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
