69

novel

192 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 1995 by Kodansha International.

ISBN:
978-4-7700-1951-6
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Ryu Murakami, when not called "the other Murakami", is usually called the enfant terrible of Japanese literature.

This was the third of his books I've read, after Coin Locker Babies and In The Miso Soup. I loved Coin Locker Babies, but didn't like In The Miso Soup quite as much - I think I generally have quite a strong stomach for violence in novels, but even for me it was a difficult book to read that made me feel quite queasy.

69, on the other hand, couldn't be more different from either of those books, being a lighthearted, semi-autobiographical story set in the author's small hometown at the end of college in 1969 (when the author is 17). It touches on how Western culture (rock music, jazz, films, etc) was a breath of fresh air to Japanese youth at the end of the sixties, but mostly it's just a very …

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