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In The Miso Soup

By: Ryu Murakami
Narrated by: Kenichiro Thomson
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Bloomsbury presents In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami read by Kenichiro Thomson

A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller

'A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs' Kirkus

'Deft and fascinating . . . A grisly tour of the darkness and confusion of the human mind' New York Times

It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's red light district.

As Frank's behaviour becomes increasingly unsettling, Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous intentions.

Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends into the troubling waters of Frank's mind, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.©1997 Ryu Murakami (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller & Suspense
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Critic reviews

‘A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs'
‘Deft and fascinating ... A grisly tour of the darkness and confusion of the human mind'
‘There is no shortage of terrors in this novel ... Atmosphere predominates, and the claustrophobia of the backstreets of Tokyo is intensely imagined'
‘In the Miso Soup stays with the reader long after the book is finished and Murakami makes his readers as complicit as Kenji in their desire to understand why Frank is the way he is'
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Read this ages ago (younger than I should have been) and the atmosphere of creeping dread has stayed with me for decades. So pleased to find this on audible. Narrator is flawless. The book has lost none of its horror in the intervening years.

An old "friend".

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