Ryu Murakami

Renaissance man for the modern age, Ryu Murakami has played drums for a rock group, made movies and hosted a TV talk show. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, was awarded Japan's most coveted literary prize and went on to sell over a million copies. His most recent novel to appear in English was In the Miso Soup, published by Bloomsbury in 2005.
years of life: 19 February 1952 present

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Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
Americans don’t talk about just grinning and bearing it, which is the Japanese approach to so many things.
Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you’ll get through if you just hang in there
Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
The bastard gets all pumped up talking about baseball, and then when I try to join in he suddenly loses interest and seems anxious to drop the subject altogether.
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