Hituri celebre din epoca Showa
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789734625444
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Polirom
Pages no: 204
Edition language: Romanian
Category:
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Crime,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
I can't imagine what it must be like to always be in the shadow of your namesake. Haruki Murakami, famous novelist, has indeed somewhat eclipsed the literary career of Ryu Murakami, although this is in no means a statement of quality. Apart from the fact that they are both Japanese people named Mura...
a weak spot from an otherwise consistently good author, Popular Hits seems to draw from a weak conception/premise, "what if 5 socially geeky boys fought 5 middle-aged used-up women." although containing steady escalation of firepower, no real urgency/connection to social problems and/or sympathy inv...
This book is awesome!I picked it up expecting a daft switch-off read, and that's exactly what I was provided with, and a whole lot more :-)Best way to describe it:The only other Ryū Murakami book I read was Piercing, which is more of an intimate psychological study, whereas this book is clearly over...
I never would have thought so just by looking at it, but I believe this is what I've been looking for. It's offbeat and familiar and hideous and alluring in perfect balance. It's the literary love of my life.When I showed Scott Fitzgerald the divorce papers, he was like "Really, Katie? For a 200-pa...
The Book Report: Six dreadfully bored, dreadfully sociopathic young twentysomething men find each other, and for want of anything better to do, start hanging out. They drink, they eat, they talk at but not to each other, and no one bothers to listen because no one has anything to say that means any-...
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