About the Author

Ryu Murakami, musician, filmmaker, TV talk show host, and novelist, is the author of Almost Transparent Blue, 69, and Coin Locker Babies, which the Washington Post praised as "a knockout . . . a great big pulsating parable."

Ralph McCarthy is the translator of Murakami's 69 and two collections of stories by Osamu Dazai.

Reviews

"A writer with talent to burn . . . Fellini and Gunter Grass, David Bowie and Dostoevski, Garcia Marquez and Mike Leigh's Naked all come to mind." --Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy"A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan . . . one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs." --Kirkus Reviews