Popular Hits of the Showa Era - A Novel (Paperback)

In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes a lethal ambush of one of the women, chaos ensues. The women band together to find the killer and exact revenge. In turn, the boys buckle down, study physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in a single blast. Who knew that a deadly "gang war" could be such fun? Murakami builds the conflict into a hilarious, spot-on satire of modern culture and the tensions between the sexes and generations.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Ryu Murakami
Translators:	Ralph McCarthy
Dimensions:	208 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-33842-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-393-33842-8
Barcode:	9780393338423

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