In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes a lethal ambush of one of the women, chaos ensues. The women band together to find the killer and exact revenge. In turn, the boys buckle down, study physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in a single blast. Who knew that a deadly "gang war" could be such fun? Murakami builds the conflict into a hilarious, spot-on satire of modern culture and the tensions between the sexes and generations.

村上龍

本名龍之助，1952年2月19日齣生於長崎縣佐世保市。青少年時期曾加入橄欖球隊，組織搖滾樂團，並加入高中新聞社，開始寫作。高三時接受嬉皮文化，在畢業前拍攝八厘米電影、組樂團、辦演唱會。1973年進入武藏野美術大學就讀，寫成「接近無限透明的藍」，並以之在1976年獲得群像新人文學獎及芥川獎，使他躍登當時年輕世代的旗手，時年24歲。之後陸續齣版許多作品、計有「海對岸的戰爭開始瞭」、「寄物櫃裡的嬰孩」、「沒關係！我的朋友」、「網球少年的憂鬱」、「悲傷的熱帶」、「69」、「IBIZA」等，其中多部作品被拍成電影。村上龍熱愛旅行，常在旅遊中取材，激發靈感。