Almost Transparent Blue

Murakami, Ryu

ISBN 10: 0006544908 / ISBN 13: 9780006544906

Published by Flamingo | HarperCollins, London, 1992

About this Item

First UK edition with full number line. Light edge wear and handling to cover. Faint abrasion to front cover upper edge near end of author name. Light age toning to edges of pages, otherwise in very nice shape.

Seller Inventory # 9658

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almost Transparent Blue
• Publisher: Flamingo | HarperCollins, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006544908
• ISBN 13: 9780006544906
• Binding: Trade paperback, 126 pages
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Literary Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Set in Japan in the 1970s, this book provides a portrait of a group of alienated youths who have rebelled against Japanese society, rejecting the respectable path of study and hard work, spending their days in drugs, sex, music and violence instead. This book won the Akutagawa Literary Prize.

About the Author

Ryu Murakami was born in 1952. The only son of schoolteacher parents, he grew up in the port city of Sasebo in southwestern Japan. After graduating from a local high school, where he played the drums in a band called Coelacanth, he went to an art college in Tokyo. It was while studying there that he entered his first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, in a competition for new writers. Published in 1976, the book won a major literary award and sold over a million copies. Since then, he has worked for a publishing house, presented a weekly music and interview radio program, and hosted a TV talk show. His literary output includes two collections of stories Run, Takahashi (1985) and Topaz (1988), and the novel Coin Locker Babies (1980), which made its debut in English early in 1995. His roman a clef 69 appeared in English in 1993. He has also directed four movies based on his writing, causing a sensation at an Italian film festival when Tokyo Decadence was shown there in 1992. His latest film is set in the U.S. and Cuba.