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by Ryu Murakami (Author) (edit contributors)

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A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker ( Tokyo Decadence ), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost... read more

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Kawashima Masayuki is a happily married man. He and his wife Yoko have a newborn baby. Masayuki watches his child in its crib at night, not as a father would, but as a laboratory animal in a cage. Every night, he watches it with an ice pick; he does this to assure himself that he will not stab... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Kawashima Masayuki is a happily married man. He and his wife Yoko have a newborn baby. Masayuki watches his child in its crib at night, not as a father would, but as a laboratory animal in a cage. Every night, he watches it with an ice pick; he does this to assure himself that he will not stab her. He doesn't want to harm the child. In one of the panic attacks he has experienced from youth, there is a revelation: he should stab a hooker again.
So he goes on vacation downtown. He checks into some hotels with different identities. He buys some new clothes and the tools he needs. Then he writes in a notebook what he will do and how. After more experimenting with the S&M system and more planning, he meets a young, petite hooker named Chiaki. He swells with excitement at what he is about to do. But Chiaki is a kindred to him and all the other kids in the Home of his youth. The plan goes awry.
Chiaki has a panic attack of a different nature, and a fearful Masayuki attends to her, afraid she has discovered his plan. He is a very careful in the steps he takes. But she misconstrues his precautions for sacrifices, and he mistakes her subsequent warming up to him as setting him up. In a high octane finish, both find out just how wrong or right their ideas were.

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  • “When you have a chronic illness, getting frustrated or impatient with it just makes things worse, right? Isn't that what they say? That you have to live in harmony with an illness? To think of it as an old friend?”
    Yoko
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  • Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else’s story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.
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  • It’s vital that those on the receiving end of violence ponder its meaning. A sad and bitter but important truth.
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  • If the victim didn’t speak Japanese well, it would be difficult to set things up properly, and, besides, it was imperative that her expressions of terror and anguish be in Japanese.
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  1. Ryu Murakami (Author)

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  1. Ralph McCarthy (Translator) - To English

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