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Sixty-Nine
Ryu Murakami
Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy
Paperback 192 pages
140 x 210mm 250g
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3013-9 / 4-7700-3013-4
Publish : Mar, 2006
Price : $12.95 |
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[ About the Book ]
"A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan."
—Library Journal
In 1969 we were seventeen. We listened to the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan. We read Rimbaud, played guitars, smoked pot, fell in love, rebelled against the establishment, protested the war in Vietnam, barricaded our high school, and produced the first rock festival in our home town—a small city in a remote southwestern corner of Japan . . .
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Sixty-Nine is a roman à clef about coming of age during a time that left its mark on baby boomers around the world—a time when we really believed we could change the world before it changed us. By turns hilarious, cynical, frivolous, and poignant, the book is infused from start to finish with Ryu Murakami's relentless energy and optimism; it simply refuses to get tedious, preachy, or "literary" for a single moment.
Reviews
"A cross between The Catcher in the Rye and The Strawberry Statement."
—Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Smart, funny."
—Publishers Weekly
"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
About the Author
RYU MURAKAMI was born in 1952 and grew up in the port city of Sasebo in western Japan before moving to Tokyo to study at the Musashino College of Art. Having quickly established himself as the enfant terrible of Japanese literature with Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami remains at the cutting edge of popular culture in Japan. He is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, and has achieved cult-status for his movies and screenplays, including Tokyo Decadence and Audition. Other novels by Ryu Murakami available in English include Coin Locker Babies and In the Miso Soup.
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