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Translator Ralph McCarthy Language Japanese Media type Print (Paperback) Publisher Yomiuri Shimbun OCLC 61520482 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Country Japan Publication date 1997 Originally published 1997 Genre Philosophical fiction Preceded by Kyoko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title イン ザ・ミソスープ
In za Misosūpu Similar Ryū Murakami books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book review in the miso soup by ry murakami
In the Miso Soup (イン ザ・ミソスープ, In za Misosūpu) is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published in 1997 in Japanese, and in English in 2003. The novel won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction in 1997.
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Twenty-year-old Kenji is a Japanese "nightlife" guide for foreigners — he navigates gaijin men around the sex clubs and hostess bars of Tokyo. On December 29 he receives a phone call from an American named Frank, who seeks three nights of his services. While Kenji has promised to spend more time with his girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Jun, the money is too good to pass up. He finds himself closing out the end of the year accompanying Frank around Shinjuku, wondering if his strange, plastic-skinned patron could be responsible for the gruesome events recently reported in the news.