Popular Hits of the Showa Era [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1600] Murakami, R.

Ryu Murakami

ISBN 10: 1908968443 / ISBN 13: 9781908968449

Published by Pushkin Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popular Hits of the Showa Era [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1600] Murakami, R.
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908968443
• ISBN 13: 9781908968449
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Popular Hits of the Showa Era

About the Author

Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.