Rip It Up - Paperback
by Kou Machida
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kou Machida, Daniel Joseph (Translator)Series:Inpatient Press / Mercurial EditionsPublish date:2025-05-13Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:Inpatient PressISBN-13:9781965874141ISBN-10:1965874142UPC:9781965874141Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, SatireBook Topic:JapanWeight:0.28Product ID:SCBRBQESHT
Rip It Up
The Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and...
Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
Language:EnglishPublisher:Inpatient PressISBN-13:9781965874141ISBN-10:1965874142UPC:9781965874141Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, SatireBook Topic:JapanWeight:0.28Product ID:SCBRBQESHT
Kou Machida is a punk singer, actor, and author, who turned to poetry and fiction after releasing one of the seminal Japanese punk albums with his band INU, 1981's Meshi kuuna! (Fuck Eating!). He has won the Akutagawa and Tanizaki prizes among many others, and his 2005 novel Kokuhaku (Confession) was named one of the three best books of the last thirty years by the Asahi Newspaper. Daniel Joseph...
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