Popular Hits of the Showa Era, (Paperback)

from PhoenixTerran

Popular Hits of the Showa Era is the second novel by Ryu Murakami that I've had the opportunity to read. Earlier this year I received a review copy of Murakami's Audition through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. In fact, that is the same way I managed to snag an early copy of Popular Hits ...

from datrappert

Reading Murakami's strange tale of a group of aimless young men in their early 20s at war with a group of thirty-something divorced working women has the fascination of watching a really good train wreck. It is a digressive, well-written (or at least well-translated) story of illogical excess set...

from CarlosMcRey

Popular Hits of the Showa Era is the story of surreal conflict between two groups of the marginalized in the Japan of the late '80s. It starts as the tale of a group of dissolute young men, who have taken to gathering together once a week for what might charitably called parties, at which they in...

from loafhunter13

While the intricacies of the language is lost somewhat in translation, the cultural satire and literary impact of Murakami's last work are not. Perhaps more comic than many of his other books, this is a book showing the author at his best. The comedy only reinforces the tragedy of the truth behin...

from berthirsch

POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA by Ryu Murakami The first Ryu Murakami book I read, In the Miso Soup, was totally by mistake. Rushing through the "new fiction" shelves at the 67th Street local branch of the NYC Public Library I spotted the name MURAKAMI on the spine of a thin book and, thinking it ...