num_pages: 217
description: It is just before New Year’s. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behavior is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion – that his new client is in fact the serial killer currently terrorizing the city. It is not until later, however, that Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life.From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psycho-thriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this shocking, hair-raising, roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry.
language: English
title: In the Miso Soup
titlecomplete: In the Miso Soup
genres: Asia, Thriller, Japanese Literature, Novels, Crime, Horror, Japan, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 29279
places: Japan, Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin