Ryu Murakami - Novels and Short Stories (9 books)

RYU MURAKAMI (b. 1952) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker. The "enfant terrible" of contemporary Japanese literature, his novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan.

He was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for his first book, ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE (1976), a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs that was critically acclaimed as a new style of literature and become a bestseller. Murakami went on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. COIN LOCKER BABIES (1980), a bildungsroman, was known for transcending genres, containing elements of social commentary, surrealism, dark comedy, philosophy, noir and horror.

The autobiographical novel SIXTY-NINE (1987) takes place in 1969, and tells the story of some high school students coming of age in an obscure Japanese city who try to mimic the counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo and other parts of the world. His POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA (1994) concerns the escalating firepower in a battle between five teenage male and five middle-aged female social rejects. The psychological thriller IN THE MISO SOUP (1997), set in Tokyo's red-light district, won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction. FROM THE FATHERLAND, WITH LOVE (2005) depicts an alternate history in which North Korea invades and then occupies Japan in 2011.

TOKYO DECADENCE (2016) brings together fifteen short stories from several of Murakami's collections.


The following books are in ePUB format:

* Almost Transparent Blue (Kodansha, 2003). Translated by Nancy Andrew.
* Audition (Norton, 2010). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.
* Coin Locker Babies (Pushkin, 2013). Translated by Stephen Snyder.
* From the Fatherland, with Love (Pushkin, 2013). Translated by Ralph McCarthy et al.
* In the Miso Soup (Bloomsbury, 2010). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.
* Piercing (Penguin, 2007). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.
* Popular Hits of the Showa Era (Norton, 2011). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.
* Sixty-Nine (Pushkin, 2015). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.
* Tokyo Decadence (Kurodahan, 2016). Translated by Ralph McCarthy.

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