Quotes from book
In the Miso Soup

Name: In the Miso Soup
Author: Ryū Murakami

Ryū MurakamiOriginal title インザ・ミソスープ (Japanese, 1997)

In the Miso Soup is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published in 1997 in Japanese, and in 2003 in English. The novel won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction in 1997.

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup (1997)

“Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic…”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

“… The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

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