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(★)(Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy／ 英文版 69 シックスティナイン／ ´In 1969 we were seventeen. We listened to the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan. We read Rimbaud, played guitars, smoked pot, fell in love, rebelled against the establishment, protested the war in Vietnam, barricaded our high school, and produced the first rock festival in our home town --a small city in a remote southwestern corner of Japan...´／ ´Sixty-Nine´ is a roman a clef about coming of age during a time that left its mark on baby boomers around the world --a time when we really believed we could change the world before it changed us. By turns hilarious, cynical, frivolous, and poignant, the book is infused from start to finish with Ryu Murakami´s relentless energy and optimism ; it simply refuses to get tedious, preachy, or ´literary´ for a single moment.／ ◆Ryu Murakami was born in 1952 and grew up in the port city of Sasebo in western Japan before moving to Tokyo to study at the Musashino College of Art. Having quickly established himself as the enfant terrible of Japanese literature with ´Almost Transparent Blue´, Ryu Murakami remains at the cutting edge of popular culture in Japan. He is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, and has achieved cult-status for his movies and screenplays, including ´Tokyo Decadence´ and ´Audition´. Other novels by Ryu Murakami available in English include ´Coin Locker Babies´ and ´In the Miso Soup´.) |
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