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, 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, From the Fatherland, with Love and Popular Hits of the Showa Era, all published by Pushkin Press, as well as Audition and In the Miso Soup. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
15 Ebooks by Ryu Murakami
Ryu Murakami: From the Fatherland with Love
An ambitious, epic dystopian novel – part political thriller and part satire.From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan’s e …
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Ryu Murakami: Sixty-Nine
Murakami’s 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends i …
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€7.19
Ryu Murakami: Coin Locker Babies
‘A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale’ Japan Times Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. Raised am …
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Ryu Murakami: Popular Hits of the Showa Era
A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke act combining manga and street culture It’s a set-up …
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Ryu Murakami: Das Casting
Seit dem Tod seiner Frau vor 7 Jahren hatte Dokumentarfilmer Aoyama keine einzige Verabredung. Nachdem sogar sein 15-jähriger Sohn Shige zu einer neuen Heirat drängt, beschließt Aoyama, genau das zu …
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€12.99
Ryu Murakami: Coin Locker Babys
Hashi und Kiku wurden nach ihrer Geburt in Münzschließfächern zurückgelassen. Die beiden Jungs verbringen ihre Jugend zunächst im Waisenhaus und später bei Pflegeeltern auf einer verlassenen Insel, b …
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€19.99
Ryu Murakami: In Liebe, Dein Vaterland I
Japan befindet sich in einer dystopischen Gegenwart. Amerika lässt seinen einstigen Verbündeten im Stich und Hunderttausende von Obdachlosen ziehen durch das von einer gigantischen Wirtschaftskrise g …
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€19.99
Ryu Murakami: In Liebe, dein Vaterland II
Japan befindet sich in einer dystopischen Gegenwart. Amerika lässt seinen einstigen Verbündeten im Stich und Hunderttausende von Obdachlosen ziehen durch das von einer gigantischen Wirtschaftskrise g …
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€19.99
Ryu Murakami: In The Miso Soup
A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller’A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The S …
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€10.28
Ryu Murakami: Piercing
Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl’s crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely c …
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€11.31
Ryu Murakami: Audition
Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up …
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€11.33
Ryu Murakami: Audition
The long-awaited translation of the novel behind the cult classic Japanese movie. In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died sev …
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€14.99
Ryu Murakami: Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel
From the author of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly funny tale of an intergenerational battle of the sexes. In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportio …
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€14.99
Ryū Murakami: Superhits der Shōwa-Ära
Sechs junge Männer ohne Ambitionen, sechs alleinstehende Frauen, die alle Midori heißen, und eine gemeinsame Leidenschaft: Karaoke! Doch was, wenn eine Fehde zwischen den beiden Gruppen eskaliert und …
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€15.99
