69 (シクスティナイン,Shikusutinain) is aroman à clef novel byRyu Murakami. It was published first in 1987. It takes place in 1969, and tells the story of somehigh school students coming of age in an obscureJapanese city who try to mimic thecounter-culture movements taking place inTokyo and other parts of the world.

69

First English language edition
Author	Ryu Murakami
Original title	69 sixty nine
Translator	Ralph F. McCarthy
Language	Japanese
Genre	Roman à clef,Novel
Published	1987 (Kodansha Europe) (Eng. trans.)
Publication place	Japan
Media type	Print (Hardback &Paperback)
Pages	192 pp (Eng. trans first edition, hardback)
ISBN	4-7700-1736-7 (Eng. trans first edition, hardback)
OCLC	28549113
Dewey Decimal	895.6/35 20
LC Class	PL856.U696 S4813 1993

Thirty-two-year-old narrator Kensuke Yazaki takes a nostalgic look back at the year 1969, when he was an ambitious and enthusiastic seventeen-year-old, living inSasebo, inNagasaki, 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, organizing aschool festival to be called "The Morning Erection Festival", besting teachers and enemies, and finding a way to change the world somehow.

The2004 film69 is based on Murakami's novel.

• 1987, Japan, ? (ISBN 4-08-772616-9), Pub date 1 August 1987, hardback (First edition)
• 1993, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-1736-7), Pub date 1 September 1993, hardback (Eng. trans.)
• 1995, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-1951-3), Pub date ? March 1995, paperback (Eng. trans.)
• 2006, Europe ?, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-3013-4), Pub date 7 February 2006, paperback (Eng. trans.)
• 2004, Germany, Suhrkamp Verlag (ISBN 3-518-45633-4), Pub date 30 September 2004, paperback

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