The terrible storey of a lost adolescent in a Japanese port town near an American military station is told in Almost Transparent Blue. Murakami’s image-heavy storey depicts a group of pals caught up in a catastrophic cycle of sex, drugs, and rock?n?roll. The work has almost no storyline, but the raw, frequently violent prose transports us on a rollercoaster journey through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the people and their experiences come to life vividly. They are trapped in passivity, and their excursions provide them with neither passion nor pleasure.
