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popular hits of the showa era,a novel
Ryu Murakami
Synopsis "popular hits of the showa era,a novel"
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.
Ryū Murakami (村上龍) es un escritor y director de cine japonés nacido en Sasebo (Nagasaki) el 19 de febrero de 1952. Su nombre verdadero es Murakami Ryunosuke (村上龍之介?). Debido a la coincidencia de apellidos con Haruki Murakami, en los ochenta sería frecuente que se hablara de los "dos Murakamis", aunque en realidad no son parientes ni comparten mucho en términos literarios.
Sus novelas suelen caracterizarse por la crudeza en las descripciones y la violencia de las situaciones narradas. El hecho de haber vivido cerca de una base militar estadounidense en su Sasebo natal le permitió conocer en profundidad la cultura e idiosincrasia norteamericana. Sus obras más conocidas son Azul casi transparente, de la que Murakami dirigió su adaptación cinematográfica,5 Sopa de Miso y Piercing.
