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Title	:	Almost Transparent Blue
Author	:	Ryū Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 126 pages
Published	:	April 11th 2003 by Kodansha (first published July 9th 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature

Almost Transparent Blue

Ryū Murakami

Paperback | Pages: 126 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 8430 Users | 517 Reviews

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Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.

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Original Title:	限りなく透明に近いブルー [Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū] ISBN13 9784770029041
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (1976)

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Ratings: 3.26 From 8430 Users | 517 Reviews

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Time to get stoned! This novel can put you in a catatonic torpor, a drug-induced haze near the point where you are about to overdose and die.First person narrative, here is someone named Ryu, not yet twenty, with his equally-young male and female buddies. Ryu is telling a story. You hear him, but do not really understand the story being told. The images will distract you and catch your full attention.First there's this cockroach on some unwashed dishes. Then it is squashed. See the jelly-like

So, a tale of Japanese junkies shooting up, having sex, slitting wrists, crushing insects and vomiting a lot. I guess there is some symbolic stuff going on, that if I was smarter or could be bothered, I could piece together. But to my addled eyes, it reads as what it is, a first novel by a 20-something literary talent out to shock stretching his wings for a maiden flight. What Ryu "the other" Murakami does really well, at least that shines though in translation, is descriptions of what it's like

"I put the thin fragment of glass, dripping blood, in my pocket, and ran out into the misty road. The doors and windows of the houses were shut, nothing was moving. I thought I'd been swallowed by a huge living thing, that I was turning around and around in its stomach like the hero of some fairy tale." Almost Transparent BlueA warning to any potential readers of this book. There is explicit, graphic sex in the first half of this novel. If you are prudish about group sex, alternative sex, or

Published in Japan in 1976, this book turned into a Naked Lunch sort of drug-lit phenom. At times, I felt like the violent sex was a bit overdone and I leaned toward a 3-star rating, but there are enough great sentences and amazing imagery to push it to a 4. Ryu takes a lot of chances here--no sturdy plot, odd moments of melancholy, some repugnant scenes, too many characters--but it comes together more often than not, and I was so intrigued by the end, I went and read all the amazon reviews just

Good for students of Japanese wanting to expand their vocabulary around drug-taking, drunken vomiting and rough sex. I rarely participate in two out of these three activities, so for me the book was of limited utility.This book was a controversial shocker when it first came out but I dont see why it was ever quite so popular. I think it reflected a lifestyle which Japanese people of that age secretly envied, when they weren't too busy with their math homework. Seriously, who takes drugs

very miserable and unconventional account of american occupation + subsequent introduction of hard drugs in japan after the second world war. writing was raw, cold, and impactful.

im not quite sure how I feel about this book.. I really enjoyed the visuals though. i felt like I was suffocating with the scents and textures of each scene.