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被青山綠湖環繞的小村落裡,住著叫小島和木島的少年。村落郊區的森林裡,一個隱居的神秘老人,告訴小島與木島:每個人身體裡,都有個重要東西,它使你柔軟,使你強悍,更使你確認自己的存在意義。去尋找能守護那重要東西的「盾」吧……

小島與木島,帶著老人的告誡,出發去尋找。經過數十年的尋覓,他們有的歷盡滄桑,有的擁抱愛與希望,他們將帶著各自的答案回到故鄉,對彼此說出──「盾」的秘密……

152 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

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Ryū Murakami

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Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screen play was worked on by director Jordan Galland. However, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production.

Murakami has played drums for a rock group called Coelacanth and hosted a TV talk show.

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