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 economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean
government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the
first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope
with the surprise onslaught of Operation From the Fatherland, with
Love . But the terrorist Ishihara and his band of renegade youths -
once dedicated to upsetting the Japanese government - turn their
deadly attention to the North Korean threat. They will not allow
Fukuoka to fall without a fight. Epic in scale, From the
Fatherland, with Love is laced throughout with Murakami's
characteristically savage violence. It's both a satisfying thriller
and a completely mad, over-the-top novel like few others.
Translated by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Tapley
Takemori, and published by Pushkin Press 'A troubled meditation on
the soul of modern Japan... Alarmingly pertinent in light of
current British politics... A morbidly funny comedy... Above all,
it is a phenomenal feat of storytelling 700 pages, dozens of
characters and scores of ideas woven into one gripping whole.'
Andrzej Lukowski, Metro 'This is a novel by the other Murakami. Not
Haruki... If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is
its Rolling Stones... [From the Fatherland, with Love] has a
Tolstoyan cast of characters, from crack North Korean commandos and
hapless Japanese bureaucrats to a gang of hoodlums who eventually
decide to save Japan. It unfolds with the pace of a thriller...'
David Pilling, Financial TImes 'Massively ambitious and
uncompromising... prescient in unexpected ways' Joanne Hayden,
Sunday Business Post ''[Mixes] the thrills of a spy novel with some
national soul-searching' Lionel Barber, Financial Times, Summer
Books 'Definitely edgier and darker than Haruki [Ryu Murakami] has
a worldwide following and is regarded by many as one of the most
thrilling writers of contemporary Japanese fiction... [He] offers a
thrilling insight - with a geopolitical panoramic view - into
national character, human relationships, chaos and disorder' -
Tatevik Sargsyan, Hunger Magazine 'Like nothing else out there... a
Japanese Tarantino... Highly addictive' Morpheus Tales 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, a novel about a group of young
people drowned in sex and drugs, 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, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition and In
the Miso Soup. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his
films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
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