There is explicit, graphic sex in the first half of this novel. 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 tale."Ī warning to any potential readers of this book. The doors and windows of the houses were shut, nothing was moving. If you are prudish about group sex, alternative sex, or "I put the thin fragment of glass, dripping blood, in my pocket, and ran out into the misty road. 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 tale." Almost Transparent Blue A warning to any potential readers of this book. "I put the thin fragment of glass, dripping blood, in my pocket, and ran out into the misty road. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.more Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life.
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 Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base.
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