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In the Miso Soup
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Ryū Murakami
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Noir,
- Tokyo Setting
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychothrillers set in Tokyo's neon-lit nightlife
- Unsettling character studies with morally ambiguous guides
- Stories exploring Japan's underbelly and youth alienation
From Little Stack
A long time ago, someone recommended this title to me as ‘Taxi Driver set in Tokyo’ and I bought it immediately. Afterwards, I read everything I could by Murakami. Many of his books could populate this article, but In The Miso Soup is a worthy entry.
Kenji works as a personal ‘nightlife’ tour guide for Americans visiting Tokyo and, just before New Year’s, he’s hired by a man named Frank who wants to see the real underbelly of Japan’s capital. A study of the mid-90s alienation of Japan’s youth, In The Miso Soup is a twisting, unsettling thriller that transports you to the rain-soaked, night-shrouded, neon-lit streets of Tokyo.
Detailed and pacy, Murakami has the reader rooting for Kenji while making Frank – the man Kenji suspects is a serial killer – a truly compelling character. If you’ve never read Murakami, start here.
Mr. Murakami's novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo's sex industry.
It's just before New Year, and Frank, an American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires.
Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.
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