Ryu Murakami
In The Miso Soup
Hardcover
(Bloomsbury Pub Ltd Feb. 7, 2005)
, First Edition edition
It's just before New Year. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: that his client may be in fact the killer currently terrorizing the city. the inferno of violence and evil into which he apparently unwillingly descends - and from which only Jun, his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, can possibly save him. observations and wisecracks, his insights into the emptiness and hypocrisy of contemporary Japan, and his ultimate moral paralysis and complicity reveal a deeply distressed and rotten modern world that seems to have lost its way in search of pleasure and instant gratification.
- ISBN
- 0747574057 / 9780747574057
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 10.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 10.0
in.