69 by Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
That’s 1969, when student uprisings shut down Tokyo University, the Beatles put out The White Album, the Rolling Stones released “Honky Tonk Women,” and war raged on in Vietnam. In a Japanese small city high school,...
Young Kenji avoids college by working as a "nightlife guide" for foreign tourists through the sleazier sections of Tokyo. When he meets Frank, an overweight American who hires him for...