Almost Transparent Blue
- ISBN-10
- 4770029047
- ISBN-13
- 9784770029041
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 126
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kodansha Amer Incorporated
- Author
- 村上龍
Description
This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of the author's youth spent amidst the glorious squalor of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in 1970s Japan. 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
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