false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854028m/17808.jpg 450667 12 Ryu Murakami, along with Haruki Murakami (no relation), is one of the best-selling writers in Japan and a major figure in contemporary popular culture. Since publishing his first work, Almost Transparent Blue, which won Japan's most coveted literary prize in 1976, Ryu has produced a steady stream of novels, stories, and essays that consistently astound and delight readers with their wild flights of imagination, irreverent humor, and brilliant, convincing portraits of some of the quirkiest characters in Japanese literature. <P>69 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's relentless energy and optimism; it simply refuses to get tedious, preachy, or "literary" for a single moment. <P>The book is composed of the following: "Arthur Rimbaud," "Iron Butterfly," "Lady Jane," "Daniel Cohn-Bendit," "Claudia Cardinale," "Power to the Imagination," "Just Like a Woman," "Alain Delon," "Lyndon Johnson," "Cheap Thrills," "Amore Romantico," "Wes Montgomery," "Led Zeppelin," "April Come She Will," "Velvet Underground," and "It's a Beautiful Day." 1716005 1987 69 (Kodansha Modern Writers) total:304|5:65|4:108|3:92|2:30|1:9| 304 1102 405 36 4 1 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:49:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 11:15:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sat Jul 19 16:32:37 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 16:33:39 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 02:29:04 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 09:42:10 -0700 2009 Sixty-Nine is a Japanese coming-of-age story. The sixties was a time of sweeping change across the globe. It was a time when youths took it upon themselves to make their voices heard, to shape the world in their own way.

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Murakami (no relation to Wind-Up Bird author Haruki Murakami, by the way) is (or bloody well should be) best known in the west for writing the novel upon which Takashi Miike's most astounding film, Audition, is based. (It has recently been translated into E...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 16:58:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 20:05:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Mon Apr 27 16:26:36 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 16:32:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 30 11:00:03 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 11:00:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 24 20:50:24 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 03:35:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 10 08:32:40 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:33:30 -0800 2009
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