Man erspare sich diese Lektüre." - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Die Ästhetik des Hässlichen und Grausamen, auf die Ryu Murakami kalkuliert, sie ist keine Ästhetik mehr.
"Doch hilft auch das Schockprinzip nicht weiter. He gives you shocking blood-violence, but the social critique is never far behind." - Sandi Tan, LA Weekly (.) In the Miso Soup often reads like a collaboration between Stephen King and Michel Houellebecq, with off-key karaoke going on in the background. " In the Miso Soup is quality pulp made out of Japan’s crushed, dark heart: Our pride, it suggests, is matched only by our self-hatred. 
This compelling, slippery novel - as slippery as the monster at its heart - slides unnervingly through the registers, from thriller to sociological tract to, finally, something akin to a spiritual meditation." - Jonathan Gibbs, Independent on Sunday "There is plenty of serious social comment to go with the slicing and dicing.And yet the darkness at the heart of In the Miso Soup stays with the reader long after the book is finished and Murakami makes his readers as complicit as Kenji in their desire to understand why Frank is the way he is." - Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Guardian " In the Miso Soup reads like script notes for American Psycho - the Holiday Abroad.
"(C)'est un chaud et froid d'horreur et de compassion, électrisant comme la jungle de néon qui lui sert de cadre nocturne." - Michel Grisolia, L'Express. "His latest oozes darkness and ambiguity and reads like a cross-Pacific bullet train." - Daniel Fierman, Entertainment Weekly. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī- : some good ideas behind it, but the plot simply too unconvincing Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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