The novels of Murakami Ryū, whom I met in my 20s, were spicy. I felt a strange sense of liberation as I fell in love with his writing style which expressed itself without embellishment. My heart warmed at the sentence, “Not living happily is a sin,” in the work “69.” Oh. That’s right. It’s an important story, but his novels are very racy. That’s why I read them more diligently.
Here are some of the characters: A dentist with supernatural powers met in a high-class brothel in New York, a man with a slutty wife, a Korean female dancer at a topless bar, a woman so beautiful that she’s scary, a married woman the protagonist dated for the first and last time, etc.
Also, there are various foods, from common foods such as mousse chocolate, hot dogs, sardine dishes, shark fin soup, fish milt, truffles, bouillabaisse, Sancho miso soup, duck foie, and Korean dishes called Samgye-tang(삼계탕; 蔘鷄湯), to dishes from world-famous high-class restaurants.
I recommend reading it ‘secretly’ alone.
