Coin Locker Babies

Resumen del libro

Coin Locker Babies is Ryu Murakami's cult cyperpunk novel. 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. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes.

One becomes a bisexual rock star and looks for his mother, while the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge. This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence. Coin Locker Babies is translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder and published by Pushkin Press 'A cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth' Publishers Weekly'A fascinating peek into the weirdness of contemporary Japan' Oliver Stone'Like a cross between a Grimms fairy tale and Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga comic series Akira...

A deliriously ambitious novel... recalls Thomas Pynchon.' Ben Jeffery, Times Literary SupplementA great big pulsating parable . .

. wildly undisciplined, occasionally tongue-in-cheek.' Washington Post 'The explosive rhythms of hard rock, the intensity of emotions, and the highly vivid images make . .

. Murakami's postmodern novel an exceptionally successful one' World Literature TodayRyu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society.

His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.

Biografía del autor

Ryu Murakami nació en Nagasaki en 1952 y durante dieciocho años vivió a la sombra de la base naval americana de Sasebo. De joven tomó parte activa en las manifestaciones contra la presencia militar norteamericana. Ha sido batería de un grupo de rock y ha dirigido varias películas, entre ellas el largometraje de culto Tokyo Decadence. Es autor de más de treinta novelas y ha publicado numerosos artículos sobre la crisis económica de Japón. Su primera novela, Azul casi transparente (1976), ganó el Premio Gunzo de Nuevos Talentos y el Akutagawa, y superó el millón de ejemplares vendidos. Cinco de sus novelas están traducidas en Occidente con una acogida crítica excelente, especialmente en Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña. Sopa de miso obtuvo el Yomiuri Literary Award en 1998, concedido por un jurado que presidió el Premio Nobel de Literatura Kenzaburo Oé.