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Mari Akasaka

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in Tokyo, Japan

May 13, 1964

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Mari Akasaka was born in Suginami, Tokyo, and studied Politics in the Law Department at Keio University. In 1999 her novel Vibrator was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. She was again nominated for the Akutagawa prize in 2000 for her novel, Muse, and won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for the same novel. Vibrator was adapted into a 2003 film starring Shinobu Terajima and Nao Ōmori.

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	Vibrator by Mari Akasaka, Michael Emmerich (Translator) 3.20 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I want you to beat down the me in me that can’t coexist with me.”
― Mari Akasaka, Vibrator

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“You have the sense that you're the one making the world go round. Everyone speaks in fragments, but for an instant those fragments are a catalyst, my self is erased and it brings on a wave of pure ecstasy, that instant in the drug.”
― Mari Akasaka, Vibrator

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“Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that they don't make red wine in Germany? What do you mean, there are some aren't there? Nope, they're white, Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that there are no red wines in Germany?”
― Mari Akasaka, Vibrator

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