By Ryu Murakami
ISBN-10: 1408806371
ISBN-13: 9781408806371
It is simply prior to New Year's. Frank, an obese American vacationer, has employed Kenji to take him on a guided travel of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on 3 successive evenings. yet Frank's habit is so unusual that Kenji starts off to entertain a terrible suspicion: that his new buyer is in truth the serial killer at present terrorizing town. It isn't till the second one evening, even though, in a scene that might surprise you and make you chortle and make you hate your self for guffawing, that Kenji learns precisely how a lot he has to worry and the way irrevocably his come upon with this nice white whale of an American will swap his life.
Kenji's intimate wisdom of Tokyo's intercourse undefined, his considerate observations and wisecracks concerning the vacancy and hypocrisy of up to date Japan, and his insights into the shockingly frequent phenomena of "compensated dating" and "selling it" between jap schoolgirls, provide us lots to consider on each web page. Kenji is our likable, if faraway from blameless, advisor to the inferno of violence and evil into which he unwillingly descends-and from which merely Jun, his sixteen-year-old female friend, can in all probability store him. . . .
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Eighth army signal corps Everyone is smiling—everyone except the policemen, and maybe they are as well beneath their masks. Smiling for the camera, making a good impression, best foot forward. Even in the depths of national poverty everyone remembers this. Up above, on the plaza, around the statue of Saigo Takamori, there are many more, sitting on benches and embankments—all of them waiting. Waiting, it seemed, for this too to pass so that they can get on with their lives. Many have been and gone.
No, no. Literature. I am all literature. Never knew anything about Zen. ” When I would bring up some Buddhist matter, he would answer with an affectionate scorn, “Oh, that stuff. That’s old Suzuki’s department, scarcely mine. ” Then he would quote something. He was a prodigious quoter, could go on for whole paragraphs, and never apparently make a mistake. ” I told him that I didn’t study, not really, just listened to Dr. Suzuki. “Well, that’s better,” he said, as though mollified. Then, “There is nothing the matter with it, you understand.
As always, the author is candid in the presentation—the only question is how truthful he is. Richie apparently tells few lies, but he does excise. The pages that follow have all been several times edited by their author and each revision has seen more excisions. One may judge what was left in, but one can only guess at what was left out. One thing left out was duplication. Richie, like his friend James Merrill, decided that if he had given information in one book he would not repeat it in the next.
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