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"A knockout...a great pulsating parable." "The third of this prolific Japanese author's 30 novels to appear in English, this is a cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth . . . The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains. . . .a lush and frantic imagination . . . expansive and exciting." -Publishers Weekly"A knockout ... a great big pulsating parable." -Washington Post"Deliciously grotesque." -Philadelphia Inquirer"The work of Murakami who is also a filmmaker begs comparison with film. Robocop comes to mind as bearing the closest resemblance to this novel." -Library Journal.".. an amazing, imaginative adventure." -Beverley Curran, The Daily Yomiuri"Its power grabbed me by the heart."-Banana Yoshimoto, best selling author of Kitchen"Devilish and brilliant." -Oliver Stone, filmmaker"Startlingly hip, frighteningly inventive." -Roger Corman, filmmaker"A writer with talent to burn." -Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy "The third of this prolific Japanese author's 30 novels to appear in English, this is a cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth . . . The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains. . . .a lush and frantic imagination . . . expansive and exciting." -Publishers Weekly "A knockout ... a great big pulsating parable." -Washington Post "Deliciously grotesque." -Philadelphia Inquirer "The work of Murakami who is also a filmmaker begs comparison with film. Robocop comes to mind as bearing the closest resemblance to this novel." -Library Journal .,." an amazing, imaginative adventure." -Beverley Curran, The Daily Yomiuri "Its power grabbed me by the heart."-Banana Yoshimoto, best selling author of Kitchen "Devilish and brilliant." -Oliver Stone, filmmaker "Startlingly hip, frighteningly inventive." -Roger Corman, filmmaker "A writer with talent to burn." -Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy "The third of this prolific Japanese author's 30 novels to appear in English, this is a cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth . . . The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains. . . .a lush and frantic imagination . . . expansive and exciting." -Publishers Weekly "A knockout ... a great big pulsating parable." -Washington Post "Deliciously grotesque." -Philadelphia Inquirer "The work of Murakami who is also a filmmaker begs comparison with film. Robocop comes to mind as bearing the closest resemblance to this novel." -Library Journal , .." an amazing, imaginative adventure." -Beverley Curran, The Daily Yomiuri "Its power grabbed me by the heart."-Banana Yoshimoto, best selling author of Kitchen "Devilish and brilliant." -Oliver Stone, filmmaker "Startlingly hip, frighteningly inventive." -Roger Corman, filmmaker "A writer with talent to burn." -Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy "The third of this prolific Japanese author's 30 novels to appear in English, this is a cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth . . . The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains. . . .a lushand frantic imagination . . . expansive and exciting." -Publishers Weekly"A knockout ... a great big pulsating parable." -Washington Post "Deliciously grotesque." -Philadelphia Inquirer"The work of Murakami who is also a filmmaker begs comparison with film. Robocop comes to mind as bearing the closest resemblance to this novel." -Library Journal.,." an amazing, imaginative adventure." -Beverley Curran, The Daily Yomiuri"Its power grabbed me by the heart."-Banana Yoshimoto, best selling author of Kitchen"Devilish and brilliant." -Oliver Stone, filmmaker"Startlingly hip, frighteningly inventive." -Roger Corman, filmmaker"A writer with talent to burn." -Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy

This work, from one of Japan's most inventive young writers, traces the surreal adventures of two abandoned teenagers in the heart of Tokyo. Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue', sold over one million copies on first publication. A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find and destroy the'