In the Miso soup
GenreFiction
AgeAll Ages
Year2003
Pages180
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Fiction

In the Miso soup

by Ryū Murakami
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"Ryū Murakami's taut, deeply unsettling thriller is widely praised for its unflinching portrait of Tokyo's night-life underbelly, though some critics find its graphic violence more provocative than genuinely illuminating."

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behavior is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: that his new client is in fact the serial killer currently terrorizing the city. It isn't until later, however, that Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life.

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  • In the Miso soup
    Published · 2003
    Publisher · Kodansha International
    Pages · 180
    Lang · ENG
    ISBN · 4770029578

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