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ISBN-10: 014303569X
ISBN-13: 9780143035695
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 03/28/2006
Dimensions: 7.10" L, 5.00" W, 0.60" H

In the Miso Soup

Translator: Ralph McCarthy

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Price: $17.00

Overview

“Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.” — The New York Times

From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this 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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Winner of the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction

"A writer with talent to burn . . . Fellini and Günter Grass, David Bowie and Dostoevski, García Márquez and Mike Leigh's Naked all come to mind." –Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy

"A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan . . . one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs." Kirkus Reviews

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ISBN-10: 014303569X
ISBN-13: 9780143035695
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 03/28/2006
Dimensions: 7.10" L, 5.00" W, 0.60" H
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