In the Miso Soup

In the Miso Soup

First edition
Author Ryu Murakami
Original title イン ザ・ミソスープ
In za Misosūpu
Translator Ralph McCarthy
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Genre Philosophical novel
Publisher Yomiuri Shimbun
Publication date
1997
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 192 pp (UK paperback edition), 216 pp (US paperback edition)
ISBN 0-14-303569-X (US)
0-74757-888-5 (UK)
OCLC 61520482
895.6/35 22
LC Class PL856.U696 I513 2006
Preceded by Kyoko
Followed by Strange Days

In the Miso Soup (イン ザ・ミソスープ In za Misosūpu) is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published in 1997 in Japanese, and in English in 2003. The novel won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction in 1997.

Plot summary

Twenty-year-old Kenji is a Japanese "nightlife" guide for foreigners — he navigates gaijin men around the sex clubs and hostess bars of Tokyo. On December 29 he receives a phone call from an American named Frank, who seeks three nights of his services. While Kenji has promised to spend more time with his girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Jun, the money is too good to pass up. He finds himself closing out the end of the year accompanying Frank around Shinjuku, wondering if his strange, plastic-skinned patron could be responsible for the gruesome events recently reported in the news.

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