Description: "Audition" is the long-awaited translation of the novel behind the cult classic Japanese movie.
Brief description: Ryu Murakami is the best-selling author of more than a dozen novels and the winner of Japan's prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. Many of his novels have been made into movies, including Audition. He lives in Japan.
Review Quotes: The prose...is elegiac and affecting, but it has the sharp, visceral feel of the butcher's knife or surgeon's scalpel...a highly compulsive, one-sitting read.--Irvine Welsh "The Guardian"