Coin Locker Babies
Published on 3. August 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-1-80533-025-7 (ISBN)
Description
<b>'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' <i>Japan Times</i> </b>
Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start.
Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind.
When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence.
<b>'Encapsulates the <i>fin de siecle</i> cultural detonation of Japanese youth' <i>Kirkus</i></b>
Reviews / Votes
'Ably encapsulates the fin de siecle cultural detonation of Japanese youth... Snyder's agile translation preserves much of the shock, beauty, and pathos in this apocalyptic minisaga of troubled times' * Kirkus * Ryu Murakami is known for the sex-drugs-and-violence style of his fiction and "Coin Locker Babies" has it all... A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale * Japan Times * Readers can live dynamically through the psychology of two rebels, moving alongside their ecstasies, melancholies, and many transformations * Pen *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pushkin Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80533-025-7 (9781805330257)
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Coin Locker Babies
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05/2013
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Persons
Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, RYU MURAKAMI is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You. His novels Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era and From the Fatherland, with Love are also available from Pushkin Press.