Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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Language: English
Published by Pushkin Press, 2013
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Ryu Murakami (Author), Pushkin Press. It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire.
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- Title
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Author
- Ryu Murakami (Author)
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Book Type
- Paperback
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1908968443
- ISBN 13
- 9781908968449
- Dimensions
- 129
Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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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.
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