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PublisherKodansha America, Incorporated
ISBN-104770029047
ISBN-139784770029041
eBay Product ID (ePID)2590001
Product Key Features
Book TitleAlmost Transparent Blue
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2003
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorNancy Andrew, Ryu Murakami
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.8 Oz
Item Length5.2 in
Item Width7.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"A Japanese mix of A Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger." -Newsweek "Bugs and mucus, cheesecake and semen, rain and runways-all lovingly described." - Washington Post "Highly recommended for readers of the bizarre." -Antioch Review "A violent book-sharply begun and slammed quickly to a finish." -Bestsellers, "A Japanese mix of A Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger ."-- Newsweek "Bugs and mucus, cheesecake and semen, rain and runways--all lovingly described." -- Washington Post "Highly recommended for readers of the bizarre."-- Antioch Review "A violent book--sharply begun and slammed quickly to a finish."-- Bestsellers, "A Japanese mix of A Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger." -Newsweek"Bugs and mucus, cheesecake and semen, rain and runways-all lovingly described." - Washington Post"Highly recommended for readers of the bizarre." -Antioch Review"A violent book-sharply begun and slammed quickly to a finish." -Bestsellers
Number of Volumes1 vol.
SynopsisAlmost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan., Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock?n?roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan., A youth in college, his older mistress, and a melange of bizarre friends - this is a novel full of scenes that glide from reality to the hallucinatory. "A mix of Japanese Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger." -Newsweek, This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of the author's youth spent amidst the glorious squalor of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in 1970s Japan. Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and
