Almost Transparent Blue

Name: Almost Transparent Blue
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ISBN: 9784770029041

ISBN-10: 4770029047

ISBN-13: 9784770029041

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Authors: Ryu Murakami, Nancy Andrew

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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…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Renaissance man for the modern age, Ryu Murakami has played drums for a rock group, made movies and hosted a TV talk show. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, was awarded Japan's most coveted literary prize and went on to sell over a million copies. His most recent novel to appear in English was In the Miso Soup, published by Bloomsbury in 2005.