Rip It Up Dune • Written and compiled by

• Written and compiled by two professionals in the field

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A joy from start to finish

An extravagant

and play across the city—from the neighborhood park to the gymnastics studio and the aikido dojo

Rip It Up Dune • Written and compiled byThe Akutagawa prize winning novel by Kou Machida, Japans most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down and out wannabe debonair who ekes