Almost Transparent Blue
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw...
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Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and ha
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
4770029047
Publisher: Kōdansha
Pages no: 126
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Horror,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Japanese people having sex to make the drugs seem worth it, but not seeming to enjoy anything but the abstraction. Thin, didn't make weight restrictions.
I put the thin fragment of glass, dripping blood, in my pocket, and ran out into the misty road. The doors and windows of the houses were shut, nothing was moving. I thought I'd been swallowed by a huge living thing, that I was turning around and around in its stomach like the hero of some fairy tal...
This book was painful to read. Imagine a Japanese Trainspotting without any redeeming qualities.
I feel awful about shelving Ryu Murakami on my "fuck this book" shelf because of how much I generally adore him. I actually don't think it's his fault at all, I think the translation is just really, really bad. But I'm abandoning it.
Verbal Vomit.That's the term I kept thinking as I read Ryu Murakami's debut novel Almost Transparent Blue; partially because he spent a lot of time describing both the action and the result. But mainly due to the author's relentless spewing of descriptions and actions throughout this plotless novel ...
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