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Tokyo Decadence


Tokyo Decadence
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Author : Ryu Murakami
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Tokyo Decadence written by Ryu Murakami and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.




Tokyo Decadence


Tokyo Decadence
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Author : R. Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 2016-03-15

Tokyo Decadence written by R. Murakami and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Fiction categories.


A cream-of-the-crop selection of Murakami's brilliance and piercing wit. This collection shows sides of Ryu Murakami that even avid fans may not be expecting. The intriguing, somewhat disturbing stories that Topaz was based on are included here, as are three entertaining and revealing portraits of the artist as a young man back in the Transparent Blue period of the late sixties and early seventies. We hear tales told by four very different individuals living in eighties Tokyo, each with his or her own problems but all with a thing about a certain pro baseball player, and we meet a brokenhearted young woman who finds an unexpected moment of love in the nineties and a single mother who stumbles on a ray of hope in the hard times of the noughties. Mixed in there somewhere are three linked stories about desire and obsession, with the timeless, seductive rhythms of Cuban music in the background. This book contains explicit content and is not suitable for minors. About the author: Ryu Murakami was not yet 24 when he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for his debut novel, Almost Transparent Blue. He has now published some forty best-selling novels, a dozen short-story collections, an armful of picture books, and a small mountain of essays. In his spare time, Ryu hosts a popular and long-running weekly TV show focusing on business and economic topics, and has for many years promoted tours and produced records for Cuban musicians. He has written and directed five feature films, of which Topaz a.k.a. Tokyo Decadence (1992) is probably the best known, and many of his novels have been made into films by other directors (notably Takashi Miike's Audition). Translated novels include Coin Locker Babies (Noma Prize for New Writers), Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup (Yomiuri Prize for Literature), Piercing, and From the Fatherland, with Love (Noma Prize for Literature and Mainichi Publishing Culture Award).



In The Miso Soup


In The Miso Soup
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Author : Ryu Murakami
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-08-03

In The Miso Soup written by Ryu Murakami and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-03 with Fiction categories.


A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller 'A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs' Kirkus 'Deft and fascinating ... A grisly tour of the darkness and confusion of the human mind' New York Times It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.



Coin Locker Babies


Coin Locker Babies
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Author : Ryu Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2023-08-03

Coin Locker Babies written by Ryu Murakami and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-03 with Fiction categories.


'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times 'Encapsulates the fin de siècle cultural detonation of Japanese youth' Kirkus Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind. When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Stephen Snyder Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence, Auditionand Because of You. His novels Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era and From the Fatherland, with Love are also available from Pushkin Press.



Piercing


Piercing
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Author : Ryu Murakami
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-19

Piercing written by Ryu Murakami and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Fiction categories.


Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder...



To Ky Oo


To Ky Oo
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Author : Liam Wong
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-07-14

To Ky Oo written by Liam Wong and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Photography categories.


Photographer Liam Wong’s debut monograph, a cyberpunk-inspired exploration of nocturnal Tokyo. Featuring evocative and stunning color photographs of contemporary Tokyo, this book brings together the images of an exciting new photographic talent, Liam Wong. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Wong studied computer arts in college and, by the time he was twenty-five, was living in Canada and working as a director at one of the world’s leading video game companies. His job took him to Tokyo for the first time, where he discovered the ethereality of floating worlds and the lurid allure of Tokyo’s nocturnal scenes. “I got lost in the beauty of Tokyo at night,” he explains. A testament to the deep art of color composition, this publication brings together a refined body of images that are evocative, timeless, and completely transporting. This volume also features Wong’s creative and technical processes, including identifying the right scene, capturing the essence of a moment, and methods to enhance color values—insights that are invaluable to admirers and photography students alike.



Popular Hits Of The Showa Era


Popular Hits Of The Showa Era
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Author : Ryu Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2013-03-26

Popular Hits Of The Showa Era written by Ryu Murakami and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Fiction categories.


It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire.



Decadence


Decadence
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Author : Carol Gnojewski
language : en
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Release Date : 2004

Decadence written by Carol Gnojewski and has been published by Fantagraphics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.


A coffee-table collection of a fascinating tradition in Japanese art. This is a lush coffee table art book comprising a survey of Ukiyo-e posterart, which was a genre of Japanese wood block prints of the ancient Edo period(1600-1867) that continue to inspire and inform creators of Japanese manga andanime. Decadence focuses on shunga prints, or Japanese erotica. Shungawas designed to titillate, depicting a range of traditional themes such asexotic Asian beauties in intimate, pin-up poses and dramatic couplings withfierce warriors wielding enormous "swords," macabre supernatural lovers, andbestial animals and monsters. Many of the most historically and aesthetically significant artists of thegenre are represented, including Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kachoyojo Azumagenji,Toyohara Kunichika, Yoshiiku, and Hokusai, among others.



Lesbian Decadence


Lesbian Decadence
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Author : Nicole G. Albert
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-23

Lesbian Decadence written by Nicole G. Albert and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Literary Criticism categories.


In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries which became known as the Belle Époque. Lesbian Decadence, now available in English for the first time, provides a new analysis and synthesis of the depiction of lesbianism as a social phenomenon and a symptom of social malaise as well as a fantasy in that most vibrant place and period in history. In this newly translated work, praised by leading critics as "authoritative," "stunning," and "a marvel of elegance and erudition," Nicole G. Albert analyzes and synthesizes an engagingly rich sweep of historical representations of the lesbian mystique in art and literature. Albert contrasts these visions to moralists' abrupt condemnations of "the lesbian vice," as well as the newly emerging psychiatric establishment's medical fury and their obsession on cataloging and classifying symptoms of "inversion" or "perversion" in order to cure these "unbalanced creatures of love." Lesbian Decadence combines literary, artistic, and historical analysis of sources from the mainstream to the rare, from scholarly studies to popular culture. The English translation provides a core reference/text for those interested in the Decadent movement, in literary history, in French history and social history. It is well suited for courses in gender studies, women's studies, LGBT history, and lesbianism in literature, history, and art.



Tokyo Junkie


Tokyo Junkie
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Author : Robert Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-04-20

Tokyo Junkie written by Robert Whiting and has been published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.