Ryu Murakami

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

Almost Transparent Blue

So intense, I read it in one go. At times hard to digest. 

Nina Alexandra Bacrau

Anjorin Molayo 

this book was plotless, but do i love it? absolutely. 
this book is about youths who are mindlessly seeking retribution or any other vomit inducing absurdities. It was dirty and quite triggering. 

the very essence of this book is foremost about innocence, of which in the story, was lost. it’s all about the tedious sensations youths forces to feel just to forget all other sensations troubling them. 

the book is all about a never ending hole of hopelessness, pain which can either be caused by others or by self, madness rage, and/or hysteria with the story and characters. 

I can see why Namjoon was satisfied with this book.

Almost Transparent Blue

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