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by Ryu Murakami (Author), Ralph McCarthy (Translator) "Nineteen sixty-nine was the year student uprisings shut down Tokyo University ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd; Reprinted edition edition (Mar 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 4770019513
  • ISBN-13: 978-4770019516
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Light and entertaining read, 27 May 2008
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This review is from: Sixty-nine (Paperback)
This is a very funny novel, the protagonist is a wise guy who recounts his experiences at school. I enjoyed the wackyness, the sharp style, realism and inter-relationship of the characters.

Above all this is a novel simply to be enjoyed - I read it over the Bank Holiday Weekend and it went by very quickly. I hope Ryu comes out with something like this in the future, as it seems to have been a one-off.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Unsettling, 21 Jun 2001
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I first read this book on a trip to the northern lights and couldn't decide if I really liked it. Its unsettling weave or story and stance is indeed unique and sets the reader on a rare trip - to somewhere out of their control. Just wander with the story but don't fight it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Growing up in the 1960s, 24 May 2009
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Ryu Murakami brings to live the rebellious spirit of the late 1960s as his narrator, influenced by the spirit of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and others stages protests at his high school and then organises a rock festival. Motivated by adolescent lust, the novel is hugely entertaining and seems to capture the spirit of an age. It is fascinating as an account of Japanese obsession with foreign music and how this music created rifts between different generations. Murakami is sympathetic to all his characters and the novel is entertaining and amusing.
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