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Title: Popular Hits of the Showa Era
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Ryu Murakami
Translator: Ralph McCarthy
Contributor: Ralph McCarthy (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0393338428
EAN: 9780393338423
ISBN: 9780393338423
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: 08/02/2011
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 208mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 247g
Release Year: 2011

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