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First English language edition |
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| Author(s) | Ryu Murakami |
| Original title | 69 sixty nine |
| Translator | Ralph F. McCarthy |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre(s) | Roman à clef, Novel |
| Publisher | Kodansha Europe (Eng. trans.) |
| Publication date | 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp (Eng. trans first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 4-7700-1736-7 (Eng. trans first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC Number | 28549113 |
| Dewey Decimal | 895.6/35 20 |
| LC Classification | PL856.U696 S4813 1993 |
69 (シクスティナイン Shikusutinain) is a roman à clef novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published first in 1987. It takes place in the year 1969, and tells the story of some high school students coming of age in an obscure Japanese city who try to mimic the counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo and other parts of the world.
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Thirty-two-year-old narrator Kensuke Yazaki takes a nostalgic look at the year 1969 when he, as an ambitious and aspiring seventeen-year-old, living in Sasebo, in western Kyushu where he gets into antics with his equally ambitious and enthusiastic best friends, Iwase and Adama. Their priorities are girls, cinema, music, literature, pop culture, organising a school festival "The Morning Erection Festival", bettering teachers and enemies, and finding a way to change the world somehow.
The 2004 film 69 is based on Murakami's novel.