69 (novel)
LC Class | PL856.U696 S4813 1993 | |
69 (シクスティナイン, Shikusutinain) is a
counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo
and other parts of the world.
Synopsis
Thirty-two-year-old narrator Kensuke Yazaki takes a nostalgic look back at the year 1969, when he was an ambitious and enthusiastic seventeen-year-old, living in
Sasebo, in Nagasaki
, where he gets into antics with his equally ambitious and enthusiastic best friends, Iwase and Adama.
Their priorities are girls, cinema, music, literature, pop culture, organizing a school festival to be called "The Morning Erection Festival", besting teachers and enemies, and finding a way to change the world somehow.
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The 2004 film 69 is based on Murakami's novel.
Release details
- 1987, Japan, ? (ISBN 4-08-772616-9), Pub date 1 August 1987, hardback (First edition)
- 1993, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-1736-7), Pub date 1 September 1993, hardback (Eng. trans.)
- 1995, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-1951-3), Pub date ? March 1995, paperback (Eng. trans.)
- 2006, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-3013-4), Pub date 7 February 2006, paperback (Eng. trans.)
- 2004, Germany, Suhrkamp Verlag (ISBN 3-518-45633-4), Pub date 30 September 2004, paperback
External links
- "69" review Japanzine By Zack pooo
- "69" review By Upcoming4.me
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