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In the Miso Soup
A Novel
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Recommended for readers who enjoy intense crime thrillers and psychological dramas set in urban environments.
Tokyo tour guide Kenji takes on Frank--a great white whale of an American tourist--and soon begins to suspect that he might be the serial killer that is terrorizing the city.
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"Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths." —The New York Times
In the Miso Soup by postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, offers a hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry.
It's just before New Year, and Frank, an 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.
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ISBN: 9780143035695
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 March 2006
Country: United States
Imprint: Penguin USA
Contributors:
- Translated by Ralph McCarthy
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 180.0mm
Weight: 153g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Ryu Murakami was 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 Piercing, 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.
Ralph McCarthy is a noted translator, whose translations include Ryu Murakami’s Audition, In the Miso Soup, Piercing, Sixty-Nine, and From The Fatherland, With Love. He is also the translator of two collections of stories by Osamu Dazai—Self Portraits and Blue Bamboo, as well as Fairy-Tale Book of Dazai Osamu.
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