Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in
the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan,
all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is
girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at
high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is
the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations
about Marxism, Rimbaud, Godard, the Beatles and the Stones, set up
a barricade in their school, organise a rock festival and map out a
highly successful strategy in girl-winning. This is a young Japan
entirely turned towards the West, pervaded by Western music, where
the girls have nicknames pulled from famous British films, but
still locked in a fight with the rigid post-war conservatism of the
older generation. Translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy
and published by Pushkin Press 'A light, rollicking, sometimes
hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan.'
Library Journal 'A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find.'
Kirkus Reviews 'The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass.' Los
Angeles Times A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes
with him all the way. Atlantic Monthly 'A cross between The Catcher
and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement.' Review of Contemporary
Fiction 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, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love.
Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include
Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
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